Enabling digital trade
World Commerce Review interview Dr Graham Bright, a leading thinker on the digitalisation of trade, about the challenges that need solving
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Carbon trade-offs: how firms respond to emissions controls
Regulatory efforts to control carbon emissions are intensifying around the world. Maria Cecilia Bustamante and Francesca Zucchi examine the effects of carbon pricing mechanisms on businesses
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Responsive and responsible bank regulation and supervision
The regulatory framework is evolving. Michelle Bowman urges regulators to focus on novel banking activities, including banking as a service and digital assets, to prevent a regulatory void
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The EU must stop carbon leakage at the border to become climate neutral
The EU is committed to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Justus Böning, Virginia di Nino and Till Folger argue that to meet this aim carbon leakage at the border must be stopped
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Fostering a sustainable digital transformation
Abeliansky et al discuss the two side effects of automation – increased inequality and a rise in carbon emissions – and propose a policy response to deal with both problems
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Climate change and financial stability
Christopher Waller explores financial risks associated with climate change, and cast doubt on the need for special focus on how banks are preparing for climate change risks
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Economic uncertainty creating difficulty for central banks
Francesco Papadia says regaining price stability is difficult but doable, but the bigger problem facing central banks is economic uncertainty, not managing the trilemma
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What SVB and Credit Suisse tell us about financial regulations
SVB and Credit Suisse have exposed regulation failures. Jon Danielsson and Charles Goodhart argue the best way forward would be to focus on shock absorption and moral hazard, not the current approach of buffers and risk measurements
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Lessons from recent stress in the financial system
Aymo Brunetti argues that big banks must become globally resolvable, or significantly ‘smaller’
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Is de-dollarisation happening?
Barry Eichengreen argues that reports of the US dollar’s demise as the dominant global currency have been greatly exaggerated
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