2 June 2025: Mars und Merkur: Hat der Euro jetzt eine neue Chance gegen den Dollar?

Read F.A.Z. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) column written by Gerald Braunberger on our Mars vs Mercury paper !

26 May 2025: A Global Euro Moment

ECB President Lagarde Speech “Earning influence: lessons from the history of international currencies” citing several of our publications on international currencies

NEW! Dataset to be added soon on cross-border connections of fast payment systems!

In the meantime, you can read the recently published paper featuring this dataset!

Ferrari Minesso, M., A. Mehl, O. Triay Bagur and I. Vansteenkiste (2025), “Geopolitics and Global Interlinking of Fast Payment Systems”, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 20105

18 April 2025: Mars or Mercury rebooted: The Trump administration, the dollar, and the geopolitics of international currency choice

VoxEu column republishing the earlier findings from our 2019 “Mars or Mercury? The Geopolitics of International Currency Choice” that countries relying on the US for their security umbrella are disproportionately inclined to hold dollar reserves.

22 March 2025: Can the dollar remain king of currencies?

Read Barry Eichengreen’s Financial Times article!