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The Israeli government, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli Innovation Authority, announced today that it has approved a transformative stimulus package aimed at elevating Israel’s standing as a global high-tech hub. A result of exhaustive deliberations by the Budget Division in the Ministry of Finance and the Israel Innovation Authority, the multifaceted stimulus plan will include several key initiatives aimed at bolstering Israel’s high-tech ecosystem

<p><span>I want to start by thanking Anna Kovner, Rochelle Edge, and Bill Bassett for organizing this conference. The current global environment highlights the importance of having strong analytic and empirical foundations to understand financial stability considerations for monetary policy, and the research presented today will help strengthen those foundations.</span><span> The global environment of high inflation and rising interest rates highlights the import...

The most fundamental of the Federal Reserve System’s many responsibilities is that of serving as the U.S. financial markets’ ultimate source of liquidity. Federal Reserve notes, along with account balances held by private depository institutions at the various Fed banks, are the U.S. economy’s final means of payment, and hence its most liquid assets, the scarcity of which is a crucial determinant of the scarcity of other liquid assets.

New research on the cybersecurity challenges posed by digital currencies and design models that can provide a more secure financial system.

-- this post authored by Nina Boyarchenko, Richard Crump, Anna Kovner, and Or Shachar With more than $10.4 trillion outstanding as of Q3:2020, the U.S. corporate bond market is a significant source of funding for most large U.S. corporations. While prior literature offers a variety of measures to capture different aspects of corporate bond market functioning, there is little consensus on how to use those measures to identify periods of distress in the market as a whole. In this post, we describ...

The Impact Of The Pandemic And The Feds Muni Program On Illinois Muni Yields We estimate a simple model in which variations in Illinois daily municipal bond yields are explained by high-frequency indicators summarizing economic and public health conditions in Illinois, as well as key changes in the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (or MLF). We find that the MLF appears to have reduced Illinois muni yields by more than 200 basis points. The Covid-19 pandemic put finances of state...