David Pendered of Atlanta Fed in this post: Nowhere is the number “two” more debated these days than in the 2 percent inflation target set by the Federal Reserve. Other uses of “two” spur plenty of arguments, such as the two-minute warning in football and the account of animals boarding Noah’s ark two by two. […]

In 2016, Swiss National Bank had proposed establishing a monetary museum. After 10 years of discussion and execution, the central bank has opened a monetary museum named Moneyverse in partnership with Bern History museum: On 10 April 2026, the Moneyverse, the SNB’s new visitor centre in Berne’s Kaiserhaus, will open its doors. The Moneyverse is […]

David M. Cutler & Edward L. Glaeser in this NBER paper analyse the longevity of universities: How have universities managed to survive and evolve over almost 1,000 years to become wildly heterogeneous, unusually fractious, multi-product, non-profit entities? Universities began as teachers’ guilds, and they still give faculty a remarkable degree of autonomy. That structure at...

There is a lot of discussion in India on implementing women reservation in Parliament.  The one thread is that increasing women reservation will help in gender equality. Luisa Carrer and Lorenzo De Masi review the evidence in Italy: Evidence on the policy impact of female politicians is mixed. This column uses data on bills sponsored […]

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (67): High-Tech Religion Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Former Professor, Department of Economics, SRCC, DU   According to Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual and popular science writer, “Nowadays, the most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not Syria or the […]