I feel deeply honored and privileged to join the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research family of researchers as a Research Affiliate in the International Macroeconomics and Finance & the Monetary Economics and Fluctuations programme areas!
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Deeply honored to see "External Finance Premium: Market Finance versus Bank Finance" included at the ECB Forum in Sintra, as well as at the NBER Summer Institute, CEPR- ESSIM, WEAI and the BSE Summer Forum.

The latest draft can be found on the NBER website: www.nber.org/conferences/...

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An immense pleasure to participate at the NBER Summer Institute 2025. Thank you to Janice Eberly and Deborah Lucas for including "External Finance Premium: Market Finance versus Bank Finance" in the SI 2025 Capital Markets and the Economy: www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Truly thrilled to see the joint work with Refet Gürkaynak and Sofia Gori presented by Refet in his intervention at the #ECBForum in Sintra in the first panel on cross-country heterogeneity!

In case you missed the live stream, you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/G2qv5ht...

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This is Europe’s global euro moment: www.ft.com/content/4d5d...

"Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice" co-authored with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl cited in today's FT Opinion by ECB President Lagarde.

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Extremely aufgeregt to see F.A.Z. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article discussing “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”, paper co-authored with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl:
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Earning influence: lessons from the history of international currencies The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

Immensely honoured to see ECB President Lagarde Speech "A Global Euro Moment" citing several of my co-authored publications on international currencies:
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...

All datasets used in the cited publications are made available on www.globalcurrenciesdatabase.com

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Please check the "Latest news" tab just added to our Global Currencies Database website to find out about the latest datasets added to the website or latest news, talks, presentations or articles featuring our work!
globalcurrenciesdatabase.com/latest-news/
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The Global Currencies Database is now live! lnkd.in/gRVJAE8d
Co-founded with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl, the Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database brings together in one place multiple and unique datasets on the history of the international monetary system.
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Thank you @intmon.bsky.social!
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Wow, really cool!

The Global Currencies Database by Livia Chiṭu, Barry Eichengreen, and Arnaud Mehl

www.globalcurrenciesdatabase.com

These are the data behind the book How Global Currencies Work (Princeton University Press):
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying What are the lessons of the 1930s?

Smoot-Hawley, Trump's Tariffs, and the Dollar: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Global Currencies Database is now live! lnkd.in/gRVJAE8d
Co-founded with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl, the Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database brings together in one place multiple datasets on the history of the international monetary system.

1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database

Just check out this banger chart from the indispensable work by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl and Livia Chitu.

Countries that rely on the US for military protection hold a much higher fraction of their foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollars.

They show similar patterns for historical data.

Thank you, Sander!