Behind the ATM: Exploring the Structure of Bank Holding Companies - Liberty Street Economics A look at modern bank holding companies and how banks’ organizational structures have changed over time.

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/03/behi... In a new blog post, Lily Gordon and I describe different types of banking organizational structures and show how those structures changed over time

www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... the call for papers for the NY Fed-ECB NBFI conference is out, submit your best papers on NBFIs to submission.nbfi.conference@gmail.com by April 30!

Staff Reports Technical working papers

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New staff report out with Rajashri Chakrabarti, Don Morgan and Dan Garcia looking at the effects of usury limits on household borrowing!

What Is Natural Disaster Clustering—and Why Does It Matter for the Economy? - Liberty Street Economics A look at the financial and economic impact of natural disaster clustering, or how natural disaster systems interact.

New blog out on clustering in natural disaster damages!

Can’t think of anything that’d make 15 year old me prouder than knowing that at 33 I’d be watching the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest from a dunkin

This week I:
1) discussed a paper
2) climbed a mountain #WFA

Your thirties are all about getting terrible acid reflux while you’re at a trampoline park for a bachelor party

Some pictures really are worth 1000 words

Looking forward to presenting in the Bank Credit Supply session tomorrow at MFA!

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h... an empirically ideal, but also terrifying, natural experiment

The hora is the purest form of moshing

1) What’s happening to federal employees is a travesty
2) Hey I know him that’s my friend on MSNBC!!!

The variation according to income levels is interesting too. The lower income you are, the less likely you are to have an opinion/care

Indeed, we live in truly strange and bizarre times

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

It’ll be interesting to see what this looks like. Also surprising to see something like this coming out of the “anti-socialism” party www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

Any real estate people on here have any sources/insights on the differences between the ZHVI and the corelogic HPI? #EconSky

I love how the njtransit part of Penn station is filled with messaging that Jersey is a place worth spending time in, they’re truly doing gods work

Looking forward to traveling to SF this week to present my paper “Household Credit and Spending Under Usury Limits” at ASSA!

Amount of any settlers of catan game I spend standing up: 90%
Amount of any other board game I spend standing up: 0%

I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy.

Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

Got the same fake recruiting spam text three times in an hour so finally decided to respond with this

Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?

Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?

See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

Thank you so much for putting this together! I just switched to a unionized hotel

Serious question: if you post on Bluesky what’s it called? I’ve been using the word tweet but obviously this is incorrect

Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.

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Does Money Talk? Divestitures and Corporate Environmental and Social Policies* Abstract. Can shareholders’ divestitures and threats of exit trigger improvements in firms’ environmental and social (E&S) policies? We show that E&

Here’s one recent paper academic.oup.com/rof/article/...

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