I feel deeply honored and privileged to join the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research family of researchers as a Research Affiliate in the International Macroeconomics and Finance & the Monetary Economics and Fluctuations programme areas! #EconSky

Deeply honored to see "External Finance Premium: Market Finance versus Bank Finance" included at the ECB Forum in Sintra, as well as at the NBER Summer Institute, CEPR- ESSIM, WEAI and the BSE Summer Forum. The latest draft can be found on the NBER website: www.nber.org/conferences/... #EconSky

An immense pleasure to participate at the NBER Summer Institute 2025. Thank you to Janice Eberly and Deborah Lucas for including "External Finance Premium: Market Finance versus Bank Finance" in the SI 2025 Capital Markets and the Economy: www.nber.org/conferences/... #EconSky #NBER

Truly thrilled to see the joint work with Refet Gürkaynak and Sofia Gori presented by Refet in his intervention at the #ECBForum in Sintra in the first panel on cross-country heterogeneity! In case you missed the live stream, you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/G2qv5ht... #EconSky

This is Europe’s global euro moment: www.ft.com/content/4d5d... "Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice" co-authored with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl cited in today's FT Opinion by ECB President Lagarde. #EconSky

Extremely aufgeregt to see F.A.Z. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article discussing “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”, paper co-authored with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl: www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt... Dataset available on: globalcurrenciesdatabase.com #EconSky

Immensely honoured to see ECB President Lagarde Speech "A Global Euro Moment" citing several of my co-authored publications on international currencies: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da... All datasets used in the cited publications are made available on www.globalcurrenciesdatabase.com #EconSky

Please check the "Latest news" tab just added to our Global Currencies Database website to find out about the latest datasets added to the website or latest news, talks, presentations or articles featuring our work! globalcurrenciesdatabase.com/latest-news/ #EconSky

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The Global Currencies Database is now live! lnkd.in/gRVJAE8d Co-founded with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl, the Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database brings together in one place multiple and unique datasets on the history of the international monetary system. #EconSky

Thank you @intmon.bsky.social! #EconSky

Wow, really cool! The Global Currencies Database by Livia Chiṭu, Barry Eichengreen, and Arnaud Mehl www.globalcurrenciesdatabase.com These are the data behind the book How Global Currencies Work (Princeton University Press): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Smoot-Hawley, Trump's Tariffs, and the Dollar: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Global Currencies Database is now live! lnkd.in/gRVJAE8d Co-founded with Barry Eichengreen and Arnaud Mehl, the Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database brings together in one place multiple datasets on the history of the international monetary system.

1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database

Just check out this banger chart from the indispensable work by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl and Livia Chitu. Countries that rely on the US for military protection hold a much higher fraction of their foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollars. They show similar patterns for historical data.