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  • How to enjoy your retirement

    Coinciding with 30 years of compulsory superannuation, the start of a new financial year and the introduction of the Retirement Income Covenant, Firstlinks surveyed its readers to find out how they spend their retirement.

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  • A Wikipedia Narration of the GameStop Short Squeeze

    This paper examines the usefulness of Wikipedia pageviews as indicator of the performance of stock prices. An examination is conducted on the GameStop (GME) case, which drew the investors’ and scholars’ attention in 2021 due to the short squeeze, and its skyrocketing price increase since 2021.

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  • The Great Carbon Arbitrage

    This article measures the gains from phasing out coal as the social cost of carbon times the quantity of avoided emissions.

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  • A hidden hand in corporate lobbying

    An investigation into the role of institutional investors in firms’ lobbying activities, noting that firms with greater lobbying institutional ownership, lobby more.

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  • Chasing dividends during the COVID-19 pandemic

    This paper investigates the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on investors’ trading behaviors around ex-dividend dates in Europe.

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  • What Moves Markets?

    What share of asset price movements is driven by news? This article finds that news account for about 50% of all bond and stock price movements in the United States and euro area since 2002, suggesting that a much larger share of return variation can be traced back to observable news than previously thought.

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  • Thirty years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming – speech by Andy Haldane

    On his last day as our Chief Economist, Andy Haldane shares his experience of working at the Bank of England for over 30 years.  He covers inflation, the stability of the UK’s financial system, and how we communicate with the public.

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  • Climate Risk and the Fed: Preparing for an Uncertain Certainty

    Speech given by Mary C. Daly, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics Virtual Webinar

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  • From Recovery to Expansion

    An address delivered by Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia​, at the Australian Farm Institute Conference in Toowoomba.

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  • Ten ideas to reimagine Indonesia’s economy after COVID-19

    If Indonesia can quickly return to pre-pandemic growth rates, the country may become the world’s seventh-largest economy by 2030, from its 16th position in 2019, rising above Italy, Russia, South Korea, and others.

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