Media citations

Mars und Merkur: Hat der Euro jetzt eine neue Chance gegen den Dollar?

F.A.Z. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), 2 June 2025, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Can the euro go global?

The Economist, Finance & Economics, 16 April 2025, on Mehl, Mlikota and Van Robays (2023), “How does a dominant currency replace another? Evidence from European trade”.

It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying. What are the lessons of the 1930s?

The Economist, Free Exchange, 6 March 2025, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Dollar Dinged by Trump Tariffs, Suffers Worst 3-Day Decline Since 2022

Ben Levisohn, Barrons, 5 March 2025, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

The consensus on a strong dollar may be too complacent

Duncan Weldon, Financial Times, 19 January 2025, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

It’s high time to make Russia pay

Martin Sandbu, Financial Times, 12 December 2024, on Ferrari Minesso, Krahnke, Mehl and Vansteenkiste (2024), “Seizing central bank assets?”

Wonking out: international money madness strikes again

Paul Krugman, New York Times, 14 April 2023, on Eichengreen, Chiţu and Mehl (2016), “Stability or upheaval? The currency composition of international reserves in the long run”.

Prepare for a multipolar currency world

Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 30 March 2023, on Eichengreen, Macaire, Mehl, Monnet and Naef (2022), “The renminbi’s unconventional route to reserve currency status”.

Can foreign-currency reserves be sanction-proofed?

The Economist, Buttonwood, 15 March 2022, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Global trade’s dependence on dollars lessens its benefits

The Economist, Schools Brief, 29 August 2020, on Boz et al (2020), “Patterns in invoicing currency in global trade”.

Dollar dominance is as secure as American global leadership

The Economist, Free Exchange, 8 August 2020, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2019), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

The tyranny of the U.S. Dollar

Bloomberg Business Week, 3 October 2018, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2018), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

The surprising way Trump’s geopolitics could accidentally drive up interest rates

Financial Post, 1 February 2018, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2018), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Quand la “Pax Americana” soutient le dollar

Les Echos, 16 January 2018, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2018), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Why Trump is to blame for the weak dollar

Bloomberg, 5 January 2018, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2018), “Mars or Mercury? The geopolitics of international currency choice”.

Book review: How global currencies work

Spear’s magazine, 21 November 2017, on Eichengreen, Mehl and Chiţu (2017), “How global currency work: Past, present and future”.

EU hopes of winning London’s euro trading sunk by undersea cables

Financial Times, 7 June 2017, on Eichengreen, Lafarguette and Mehl (2016), “Cables, sharks and the geography of the foreign exchange market?”

Taking a pounding

The Economist, 3 October 2015, on Chiţu, Eichengreen and Mehl (2014), “When did the US dollar dethrone sterling as the main international currency? Evidence from the bonds markets”.

Clash of the currencies

The Economist, The World If, 27 July 2015, on Eichengreen, Chiţu and Mehl (2014), “Stability or upheaval? The currency composition of international reserves in the long run”.

The dollar's sterling work

The Economist, Free Exchange, 27 August 2014, on Chiţu, Eichengreen and Mehl (2014), “When did the US dollar dethrone sterling as the main international currency? Evidence from the bonds markets”.

ECB sees no clear rival to US dollar as global currency

Centralbanking.com, 16 July 2014, on Mehl (2014), “Reserve diversification and global foreign exchange markets: an overview of the literature”, The international role of the euro, ECB, July (2014), Frankfurt am Main, pp. 45-53.

ECB paper finds US foreign bond holdings rooted in past

Centralbanking.com, 18 September 2012, on Chiţu, Eichengreen and Mehl (2014), “History, gravity and international finance”.

A formula to end the dollar’s reserve currency domination

Financial Times, Alphaville, 22 May 2012, on Chiţu, Eichengreen and Mehl (2014), “When did the US dollar dethrone sterling as the main international currency? Evidence from the bonds markets”.

Manifest currency? U.S. dollar’s global dominance not set in stone

Reuters, 23 May 2012, on Chiţu, Eichengreen and Mehl (2014), “When did the US dollar dethrone sterling as the main international currency? Evidence from the bonds markets”.

Comment la communication fait bouger le dollar

Les Echos, 30 March 2009, on Fratzscher and Mehl (2009), “Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?”