Generative AI adoption tops 90 percent among Japanese banks
A Bank of Japan survey shows that 79.3 percent of Japanese financial institutions actively use generative AI, rising to over 90 percent when trials are included.
Federal Reserve Board research introduces a semi-nonparametric framework to estimate forward-looking conditional pricing kernels using index options.
A Bank for International Settlements study finds that post-crisis liquidity rules and market frictions reshape central bank reserve demand rather than shifting it outward.
Russian insurance premiums expanded 14.4 percent year-on-year to 2 trillion rubles in the first half of 2026, driven by endowment life policies.
Severe supplier concentration and weak governance undermine third-party risk management across South African financial institutions, a Prudential Authority review found.
A Bank of Japan survey shows that 79.3 percent of Japanese financial institutions actively use generative AI, rising to over 90 percent when trials are included.
A Federal Reserve research paper demonstrates that bounded rationality invalidates Barro's random walk hypothesis for public debt and taxes.
A Bank of England working paper finds that US capital gains tax cuts since the 1970s increased stock price-dividend volatility by 35 percent.
A Bank of England working paper finds that productivity growth is not inherently disinflationary and can drive consumer prices higher.
Nature-related lawsuits reduce corporate valuations by an average of 1.76 percent around court rulings, according to a Banque de France working paper.
A Bank of Canada staff working paper finds that household time reallocation explains consumption cyclicality across categories.
Federal Reserve economists developed a Structural Labor Market Indicator synthesizing nine labor margins within a New Keynesian model.