Mostly Economics

The Nobel Prize in economics 2026 is awarded to  Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation. This year’s laureates in the economic sciences, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have developed new macroeconomic models that have significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilisation policy. On the basis of th...

IMF’s GFSR Oct-2026 edition has a chapter on hedge funds Hedge funds have become increasingly important participants in global financial markets. Although the sector remains relatively small within nonbank finance, its footprint has grown rapidly. Globally, hedge funds now hold about $13 trillion in assets, more than three times their 2013 level. Unlike most other […]

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (80): Don’t Gimme that Development Malarkey Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Former (Economics) Professor, SRCC, DU Kashi Aggarwal, as a school girl perhaps, had penned some sensitive poetry during Covid-19 times, as follows hoping, in turn, innocently, for development to take place as quickly as possible: Rise of poverty […]

Alvaro Contreras, Peter Eccles and Paolo Siciliani in this Bank of England paper look at how cloud outsourcing will impact bank competition: Cloud outsourcing may alter competition in banking by allowing smaller competitors to access scalable digital infrastructure. This paper studies the effects of banks’ outsourcing agreements with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in the UK bank...

St Louis Fed’s FRED database is a gold standard of economic/finance databases. Every other database in the world is simply chasing the gold standard. St Louis Fed recently conducted a conference under the theme Navigating Trust, AI & Storytelling in a World of Data. Federal Reserve Goveror Christopher delivered an interesting speech narrating history of […]