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NOVEMBER 2022
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Interesting papers – November 2022
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30. Nov, 2022
The financial resource curse
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14. Nov, 2022
Completing the banking union
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6. Nov, 2022
OCTOBER 2022
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Another one bites the dust
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28. Oct, 2022
MeToo has arrived in economics academia
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24. Oct, 2022
A Nobel Prize for banking and finance
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11. Oct, 2022
Liquidity creation and growth – now forthcoming in JEG
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3. Oct, 2022
SEPTEMBER 2022
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Borrower-based macro-pru
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30. Sep, 2022
What a week! And it’s only Tuesday
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27. Sep, 2022
Europe's pathway to the future: challenges and opportunities
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26. Sep, 2022
Elizabeth II
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18. Sep, 2022
AUGUST 2022
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Ieke van den Burg Prize 2022
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31. Aug, 2022
Ukraine and European integration
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8. Aug, 2022
JULY 2022
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Hot summer, desperate autumn
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24. Jul, 2022
Fighting energy price inflation
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23. Jul, 2022
The clown leaves, the circus continues
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11. Jul, 2022
JUNE 2022
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Europe’s energy policy in the wake of Russia’s aggression
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29. Jun, 2022
Postcard from Florence
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27. Jun, 2022
Sovereign debt and financial stability
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4. Jun, 2022
MAY 2022
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Interesting papers - May 2022
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22. May, 2022
1984 in the UK
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13. May, 2022
Confronting the past - Germany vs. Russia
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11. May, 2022
Big techs, QR code payments and financial inclusion
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4. May, 2022
APRIL 2022
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The Real Bank Lending Channel of Exchange Rate Depreciation
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25. Apr, 2022
Macron gagne de nouveau
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24. Apr, 2022
Revisiting the drivers of remittance costs
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18. Apr, 2022
Ukraine’s struggle and Germany’s hesitancy
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15. Apr, 2022
MARCH 2022
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Have Western economists lost Russia?
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15. Mar, 2022
JBF special issue on green and ethical finance
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11. Mar, 2022
The battle lines have been drawn
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2. Mar, 2022
FEBRUARY 2022
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Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19
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28. Feb, 2022
Covid – nobody gets it completely right
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26. Feb, 2022
The conflict is upon us
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22. Feb, 2022
Bank business models - another special JBF issue
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11. Feb, 2022
Supranational cooperation and regulatory arbitrage
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9. Feb, 2022
JANUARY 2022
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Bank complexity – a special JBF issue
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26. Jan, 2022
The Russian threat – back to the 1980s?
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23. Jan, 2022
Will Video Kill the Radio Star?
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19. Jan, 2022
Have Banks Caught Corona?
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13. Jan, 2022
Brexit – a new season with the same themes
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11. Jan, 2022
Macro-financial policy in the UK
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7. Jan, 2022
Price controls and inflation
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5. Jan, 2022
DECEMBER 2021
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To a Better 2022
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22. Dec, 2021
NOVEMBER 2021
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Bank Crisis management - what next?
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26. Nov, 2021
The new German government
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25. Nov, 2021
Covid-19 and Banking – Special JBF issue
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14. Nov, 2021
OCTOBER 2021
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Postcard from Northern Ireland
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25. Oct, 2021
Bundesbank - ready for change?
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22. Oct, 2021
MPS: Europe’s banking troubles crystallised in one bank
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11. Oct, 2021
SEPTEMBER 2021
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The Demise of Doing Business - Goodhart's Law in Action
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29. Sep, 2021
Pay-out restrictions - going, going, gone
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25. Sep, 2021
German elections 2021
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23. Sep, 2021
Fostering FinTech for financial transformation
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16. Sep, 2021
Interesting forthcoming papers in JBF
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14. Sep, 2021
Afghanistan
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12. Sep, 2021
JULY 2021
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Brexit -and it just won’t stop
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27. Jul, 2021
Ieke van den Burg Prize 2021
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20. Jul, 2021
Demography, inequality and inflation
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18. Jul, 2021
Long-term finance in Africa - the website
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14. Jul, 2021
JUNE 2021
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Politics and finance - the second edition
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27. Jun, 2021
Trump, Brexit and Northern Ireland
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14. Jun, 2021
Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment
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11. Jun, 2021
Economics of supranatl. supervision-forthcoming in JFQA
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10. Jun, 2021
MAY 2021
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Bank sectoral concentration & risk, forthcoming in JMCB
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29. May, 2021
Banking and COVID-19: recurring themes
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25. May, 2021
The German obsession with titles and academic rules
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17. May, 2021
Weekend of anniversaries
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10. May, 2021
Supervising auditors: need for reform
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8. May, 2021
APRIL 2021
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Politics, philosophy and economists
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30. Apr, 2021
Brexit - the first quarter
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7. Apr, 2021
MARCH 2021
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Some thoughts on the pandemic
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30. Mar, 2021
Interesting papers in JBF - March 2021
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19. Mar, 2021
Exit strategies
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17. Mar, 2021
The Greensill Failure – looking beyond the headlines
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9. Mar, 2021
FInance in the Time of COVID-19 - a year on!
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6. Mar, 2021
FEBRUARY 2021
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Brexit - new season, old themes!
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5. Feb, 2021
JANUARY 2021
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Bank resolution – time for another reform in Europe?
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17. Jan, 2021
On a personal note
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13. Jan, 2021
UK exits Erasmus -penny-wise and pound-foolish
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10. Jan, 2021
DECEMBER 2020
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Looking back, looking forward
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24. Dec, 2020
Brexit – the final episode… for this season
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21. Dec, 2020
Restricting financial sector's profit distribution - part 2
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18. Dec, 2020
Are banks catching Corona?
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11. Dec, 2020
Emerging scholar conference
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10. Dec, 2020
NOVEMBER 2020
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Interesting COVID papers
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24. Nov, 2020
Undermining democracy in the US
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22. Nov, 2020
A beautiful day
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8. Nov, 2020
OCTOBER 2020
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Economic policy – the hunt for new ideas
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19. Oct, 2020
Nobel prize – much ado about what?
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15. Oct, 2020
One cap to bind them all?
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1. Oct, 2020
SEPTEMBER 2020
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Climate and ethical finance - a conference report
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20. Sep, 2020
Surrounded by zombies?
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16. Sep, 2020
Doing Business – again in the (wrong) headlines
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10. Sep, 2020
Brexit - new excitement!
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8. Sep, 2020
AUGUST 2020
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Emergency loans and consumption: evidence from Iran
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28. Aug, 2020
JULY 2020
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A Hamiltonian glimpse in Europe
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21. Jul, 2020
COVID-19 in emerging markets: firm-survey evidence
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17. Jul, 2020
Brexit – (almost) any news is bad news!
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15. Jul, 2020
Cass Business School - what’s in a name?
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13. Jul, 2020
Liquidity creation, growth and investment
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2. Jul, 2020
JUNE 2020
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Politics and finance - a conference report
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29. Jun, 2020
Racism and economics
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23. Jun, 2020
Effectiveness of macro-pru in the Americas
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9. Jun, 2020
Preserving capital, restricting pay-outs
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8. Jun, 2020
COVID0-19 response - failing governments
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4. Jun, 2020
MAY 2020
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Finance and COVID-19 in Africa
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29. May, 2020
Hamilton visits Berlin
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20. May, 2020
Karlsruhe and the euro
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13. May, 2020
Bank resolution and systemic risk
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7. May, 2020
Interesting papers - May 2020
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1. May, 2020
APRIL 2020
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Credit guarantees in the time of COVID-19
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26. Apr, 2020
National policies for a global pandemic?
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22. Apr, 2020
The case for Corona-bonds
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7. Apr, 2020
Interesting papers - April 2020
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5. Apr, 2020
MARCH 2020
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Finance in times of COVID-19 - what's next?
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16. Mar, 2020
Finance in times of COVID-19
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6. Mar, 2020
FEBRUARY 2020
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Data, data, data - postcard from Nairobi
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27. Feb, 2020
Bank resolution in Portugal and across the globe
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21. Feb, 2020
Postcard from Barbados
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7. Feb, 2020
JANUARY 2020
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Brexit, finally!
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31. Jan, 2020
DECEMBER 2019
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Financial stability in Paris
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23. Dec, 2019
Brexit - a new trilemma
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13. Dec, 2019
Infrastructure finance in Latin America
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6. Dec, 2019
Entrepreneurship and Finance – the Bright and Dark Sides
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2. Dec, 2019
NOVEMBER 2019
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Technology and the future of banking
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28. Nov, 2019
Neo-liberalism vs. Marxism revisited
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15. Nov, 2019
OCTOBER 2019
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Long-term finance in Africa
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30. Oct, 2019
Brexit-more action, same themes
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25. Oct, 2019
Postcard from Beijing
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20. Oct, 2019
Randomistas rule
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16. Oct, 2019
Off to Helsinki
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9. Oct, 2019
SEPTEMBER 2019
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Frontier research in macro-pru
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27. Sep, 2019
Brexit and legal traditions
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25. Sep, 2019
Finance and poverty reduction in India
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24. Sep, 2019
On German Euro-populism
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22. Sep, 2019
Is cross-border supervisory cooperation effective?
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5. Sep, 2019
Postcard from Dhaka
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3. Sep, 2019
1 September 1939
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1. Sep, 2019
AUGUST 2019
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Brexit - the crisis is here
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29. Aug, 2019
JULY 2019
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New papers in Review of Finance
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31. Jul, 2019
Boris, oh, Boris
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13. Jul, 2019
JUNE 2019
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Basel III and SME Finance
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30. Jun, 2019
MAY 2019
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The architecture of supervision
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27. May, 2019
Theresa May – a false sense of duty!
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24. May, 2019
Second young writers workshop
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11. May, 2019
Looking beyond the borders of the banking union
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8. May, 2019
APRIL 2019
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Making Basel III work for the emerging world
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23. Apr, 2019
Brexit - the long view
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22. Apr, 2019
Off to Tallinn
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3. Apr, 2019
MARCH 2019
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Postcard from Mumbai
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24. Mar, 2019
Brexit - what a week!
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15. Mar, 2019
Brexit - this week's episode
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8. Mar, 2019
Better in or better out? Sweden and the banking union
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8. Mar, 2019
Reshaping the Future for Financial Inclusion
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2. Mar, 2019
FEBRUARY 2019
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Why Paul Romer is wrong (again)!
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25. Feb, 2019
JANUARY 2019
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Europe's banking union - two steps backwards
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27. Jan, 2019
Brexit soap opera - ready for the next season?
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16. Jan, 2019
DECEMBER 2018
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Looking back, looking forward
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14. Dec, 2018
Micro-evidence on macroprudential policies
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11. Dec, 2018
Baby steps towards completing the banking union
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6. Dec, 2018
Green finance
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3. Dec, 2018
NOVEMBER 2018
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SME growth constraints in low-income countries
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30. Nov, 2018
The world of evaluation – from a development bank’s view
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28. Nov, 2018
Brexit - habemus pactum?
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25. Nov, 2018
10 years after the crisis - a conference report
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7. Nov, 2018
SEPTEMBER 2018
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On the road - Basel III in DC and EP in Vienna
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30. Sep, 2018
10 years after the crisis – some personal observations
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21. Sep, 2018
Brexit Trilemma Revisited
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20. Sep, 2018
Interesting papers - September 2018 issue
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14. Sep, 2018
Basel standards in developing countries
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12. Sep, 2018
AUGUST 2018
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Keep walking? Islamic bank borrowers don’t mind distance
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9. Aug, 2018
JULY 2018
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Handbook of Finance and Development
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26. Jul, 2018
Interesting papers - July 2018 issue
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23. Jul, 2018
Generosity & privileges of big countries
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23. Jul, 2018
More thoughts on Brexit
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23. Jul, 2018
Italy & Euro - can't live with it, can't live without it
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9. Jul, 2018
JUNE 2018
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Global Findex in London
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22. Jun, 2018
Brexit – kicking the can down the road
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8. Jun, 2018
Italexit?
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8. Jun, 2018
MAY 2018
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Basel III-Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets
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23. May, 2018
Bitcoin, blockchain and the future of money
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10. May, 2018
Political change in Malaysia
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10. May, 2018
Immigration: When populism meets bureaucratic incentives
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6. May, 2018
More on financial inclusion
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4. May, 2018
APRIL 2018
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Economic Policy Panel in Zurich
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12. Apr, 2018
MARCH 2018
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What is new in the financial inclusion literature?
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26. Mar, 2018
The trilemma of Brexit
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19. Mar, 2018
Brexit - how the political class has failed its people
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3. Mar, 2018
The economics of supranational supervision
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2. Mar, 2018
FEBRUARY 2018
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Ordoliberalism on the road - DC and Vienna
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12. Feb, 2018
JANUARY 2018
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Doing Business - time to dump the rankings
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17. Jan, 2018
Mobile Money and Firm Growth
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16. Jan, 2018
Random links and thoughts on New Year’s Day
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1. Jan, 2018
DECEMBER 2017
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Brexit - the first phase is over
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16. Dec, 2017
NOVEMBER 2017
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Research in Islamic finance - looking forward
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29. Nov, 2017
German politics - time to take risks
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29. Nov, 2017
Ordoliberalism - understanding German economics
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23. Nov, 2017
Populism meets McCarthyism meets authoritarianism
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6. Nov, 2017
Sex and Credit - now forthcoming in JBF
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5. Nov, 2017
OCTOBER 2017
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Economic Policy Panel in Brussels
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18. Oct, 2017
Mobile Money and Financial Development
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17. Oct, 2017
Whither Europe?
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8. Oct, 2017
SEPTEMBER 2017
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A political watershed in Germany
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29. Sep, 2017
Postcard from Kuala Lumpur
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1. Sep, 2017
The uproar about EJMR
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1. Sep, 2017
AUGUST 2017
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Forthcoming in Review of Finance
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24. Aug, 2017
JULY 2017
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Some random summer thoughts
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30. Jul, 2017
Banking union at three
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4. Jul, 2017
JUNE 2017
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The UK conundrum of monetary and macro-prudential policies
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30. Jun, 2017
Helmut Kohl, 1930-2017
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16. Jun, 2017
Capital buffer, loan growth and fragility
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14. Jun, 2017
More turmoil in British politics
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9. Jun, 2017
Banking union passes first test
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9. Jun, 2017
Basel standards in LICs
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8. Jun, 2017
MAY 2017
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Fixing the Eurozone and Beyond
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31. May, 2017
Bank bail-in: The effects on credit supply and real economy
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28. May, 2017
How to publish in finance journals?
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25. May, 2017
Sectoral specialization by banks – new measures, new results
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9. May, 2017
Interesting papers I have been reading
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7. May, 2017
Macron gagne! Not a triumph but a wake-up call
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7. May, 2017
APRIL 2017
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Resolution frameworks matter–even if they permit bail-outs!
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29. Apr, 2017
A signal of hope from France?
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24. Apr, 2017
AMC for the Eurozone – reviving a good idea
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24. Apr, 2017
Economic Policy Panel in Malta
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20. Apr, 2017
Another election - another Brexit debate?
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18. Apr, 2017
Quo vadis Europe? In London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris
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14. Apr, 2017
Gibraltar and Brexit
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3. Apr, 2017
MARCH 2017
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Brexit trigger - how much cake is left?
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29. Mar, 2017
Quo vadis European Union?
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1. Mar, 2017
FEBRUARY 2017
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Is there a natural resource curse in finance?
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26. Feb, 2017
Rethinking the effects of deindustrialization
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20. Feb, 2017
Another Groundhog Day in Greece
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15. Feb, 2017
Alternative fact of the month
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15. Feb, 2017
Competition and Regulation in Financial Markets
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9. Feb, 2017
JANUARY 2017
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From Ms. May-be to: yes, we may!
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21. Jan, 2017
Economists in crisis?
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7. Jan, 2017
When Arm's Length is Too Far
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7. Jan, 2017
DECEMBER 2016
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Happy Holidays
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16. Dec, 2016
Emerging scholar conference… and the winner is…
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15. Dec, 2016
Postcard from Cape Town
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9. Dec, 2016
The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking
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9. Dec, 2016
Interesting papers and events
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6. Dec, 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
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Future challenges for financial regulation
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22. Nov, 2016
Financial inclusion–measuring progress and progress in measuring
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18. Nov, 2016
Nascent stock exchanges
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17. Nov, 2016
After the Brexit shock the Trump shock - what's next?
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9. Nov, 2016
A trend back to books in economics
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8. Nov, 2016
Finance and Development: The Unfinished Agenda
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8. Nov, 2016
OCTOBER 2016
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Foreigners vs. Natives: Lending Techniques and Pricing
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17. Oct, 2016
Economic Policy Panel in Florence
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13. Oct, 2016
From Great Britain to Narrow Minds
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9. Oct, 2016
SEPTEMBER 2016
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Alternative finance - new opportunities or new risks?
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30. Sep, 2016
European banking – too late to grow out of the crisis?
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29. Sep, 2016
Bailing in vs. bailing out
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14. Sep, 2016
AUGUST 2016
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Interest rate caps in Kenya
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26. Aug, 2016
Cross-border regulatory cooperation Down Under
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23. Aug, 2016
Some interesting papers I have been reading
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21. Aug, 2016
More on Brexit
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1. Aug, 2016
Keep walking: Are borrowers willing to walk for their beliefs?
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1. Aug, 2016
JULY 2016
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Long-term finance-the new financial development frontier
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24. Jul, 2016
JUNE 2016
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Three days after the Brexit vote – some early thoughts
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27. Jun, 2016
Making the Eurozone more resilient
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26. Jun, 2016
May you live in interesting times
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24. Jun, 2016
A new blog
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20. Jun, 2016