ECONOMY
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Stablecoins and Crypto Shocks: An Update
Kenechukwu Anadu, Pablo D. Azar, Marco Cipriani, Thomas M. Eisenbach, Catherine Huang, Mattia Landoni, Gabriele La Spada, Marco Macchiavelli, Antoine…
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Gauging the Strength of China’s Economy in Uncertain Times
Jeffrey B. Dawson and Hunter L. Clark Amid increasing pressure on the Chinese economy from China’s trade conflict with the…
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The Origins of Market Power in DeFi
Pablo D. Azar, Adrian G. Casillas, and Maryam Farboodi In our previous Liberty Street Economics post, we introduced the decentralized…
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When College Might Not Be Worth It
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz In our last post, we showed that the economic benefits of a college degree…
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Will Peak Demand Roil Global Oil Markets?
Matthew Higgins and Thomas Klitgaard “Peak oil”—the notion that the depletion of accessible petroleum deposits would soon lead to declining…
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Recent Shifts Seen in Consumers’ Public Policy Expectations
Joseph Delehanty, Gizem Kosar, and Wilbert van der Klaauw In this post we examine changes in households’ beliefs following the…
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Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Role of the Dollar
Sushant Acharya, Ozge Akinci, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, and Paolo A. Pesenti In the literature on monetary policy spillovers considered in the…
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Why Are Credit Card Rates So High?
Itamar Drechsler, Hyeyoon Jung, Weiyu Peng, Dominik Supera, and Guanyu Zhou Credit cards play a crucial role in U.S. consumer…
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Interoperability of Blockchain Systems and the Future of Payments
Jon Durfee, Michael Junho Lee, Joseph Torregrossa, and Sarah Yu Wang In a previous post, we introduced a three-pillar framework for interoperability…
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The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast—March 2025
Marco Del Negro, Ibrahima Diagne, Pranay Gundam, Donggyu Lee, and Brian Pacula This post presents an update of the economic…
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