Energy
How replacing coal with renewable energy could pay for itself
New research suggests swapping coal for renewable energy would bring serious economic as well as ecological advantages. Here's how the world might benefit.
Tobias Adrian
Tobias Adrian is a Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Associate Director of Research and Statistics Group. His research covers asset pricing, financial intermediation, and macroeconomics, with a focus on the aggregate implications of capital market developments.
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Financial and Monetary Systems
IMF experts explain the urgent need for comprehensive global laws around cryptocurrencies
Crypto assets are changing the international monetary and financial system, but there is an urgent need for cross-border collaboration to address potential challenges.
Economic Progress
Inflation is well above target in many countries, so what can policymakers do?
With inflationary pressures intensifying and Omicron generating new uncertainties, monetary policymakers are facing new and challenging tradeoffs globally.
COVID-19
El Coronavirus está empeorando la fragilidad financiera mundial, según el FMI
El Fondo Monetario Internacional ha advertido que la pandemia corre el riesgo de amplificar aún más las vulnerabilidades financieras preexistentes.
COVID-19
Coronavirus is worsening global financial fragility, according to the IMF
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the pandemic risks further amplifying pre-existing financial vulnerabilities.
Inequality
The global economy is in a vulnerable state – here's how we can avoid disaster
Weak spots in the global economy could amplify the impact of a shock, threatening economic growth.
Financial and Monetary Systems
How can we get better at forecasting financial instability
It remains difficult to forecast financial instability. But, progress is being made to improve the understanding of important links between the financial sector and the economy.
Financial and Monetary Systems
5 charts on the vulnerabilities in the global economy - and why we should worry about them
If financial conditions remain easy for too long, vulnerabilities will continue to build, and the odds of a sharp drop in economic growth at some later point will be higher.
Banking and Capital Markets
Market liquidity, leverage, and regulation ten years after the crisis
Banks’ balance sheet leverage has been shrinking, and dealers’ corporate bond holdings have fallen and stagnated (Figure 1). These factors raise potential concerns that dealers have reduc...
Banking and Capital Markets
Market liquidity, leverage, and regulation ten years after the crisis
The financial system has undergone far-reaching changes since the 2008 Global Crisis. This column casts those changes in terms of shifts in the way financial intermediaries manage their b...
Financial and Monetary Systems
This is how much progress we've made on banking reform since the crisis
This chart from the IMF looks at banking regulation and supervisory frameworks from 2013 to 2017.
Financial and Monetary Systems
Le système financier est plus solide mais de nouveaux facteurs de vulnérabilité sont apparus depuis la crise de 2008
L’incertitude entourant les politiques économiques s’accroît dans certains pays et une montée des pressions sur le marché financier est observée dans plusieurs pays émergents.
Financial and Monetary Systems
El sistema financiero es más sólido, pero con nuevas vulnerabilidades
Aunque la expansión mundial ha tocado techo, las políticas monetarias acomodaticias continúan respaldando el crecimiento. Pero no debemos darnos por satisfechos.
Geo-economics
Ten years after the financial crisis, the global economy is stronger but vulnerable
The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report looks at some of the risks facing the global economy.
Emerging-Market Multinationals
Dutch tulips, sub-prime loans and the trouble with regulating finance
Tobias Adrian and Maurice Obstfeld from the IMF look at the challenge of regulating and supervising modern finance.