Four Praises and a Funeral: In Defence of Short Selling

Everyone loves a good underdog story in which an unlikely hero takes on a mighty [...]

Wall Street Bets Vs. The Street

The big story at the moment is how a community on the Reddit subgroup WallStreetBets [...]

Programmable Money and CBDC

In 2020, one of the interesting topics being discussed in parallel to central bank digital [...]

The Rise in Interest in CBDC

The following is the first in a series of blog posts on central bank digital [...]

COVID-19 and the Lessons for Widening Sustainable Finance

We are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. Apart from the tragic loss of [...]

Dynamics of Output Growth During Pandemics: Evidence from Two Centuries of Data

In this Suara SEACEN article, we show that global output growth slows down during pandemics, [...]

Crisis Preparedness in the Age of COVID-19: a Primer

Maintaining confidence and the smooth functioning of financial markets[i] Since the initial publication of this [...]

FDI and Capital Flows: New Perspectives from New Data

Capital flows and their volatility present challenges for economic policy makers.  They can exacerbate economic [...]