The economy is structurally exposed to currency risk for no fault of its own by a global phenomenon—dollar dominance. The international macro-economic concept of 'original sin' coined by Barry ...

When, not if, Jamaica finds crude oil in commercial quantities it will be a huge blessing and not a curse, as some are ...

Washington has a head start in the race to dominate the digital currency of the future and thus consolidate the dollar’s ...

Central banks in recent decades have increased the share of their reserves held as securities, potentially reflecting ...

Barry Eichengreen examines what's behind the rising volume - and, increasingly, the domestic vaulting - of official reserves ...

This issue of CCSI Investment Perspectives was contributed by Callum Thomas. He is a Junior Policy Analyst with the OECD's ...

Gold’s status as a hedge against uncertainty wobbled after war erupted in West Asia. Its price fell. Explanations abound for ...

Bulgaria joined the eurozone on January 1, 2026. Its adoption of the common European currency resulted in the end of use for ...

Barry Eichengreen examines what’s behind the rising volume—and, increasingly, the domestic vaulting—of official reserves.

Kaushik Basu As the economic consequences of US President Donald Trump’s war against Iran become evident, policymakers around the world are running out of patience. The recent Spring Meetings of the ...

Is the US dollar doomed to lose its status as the global reserve currency? Barry Eichengreen has set out to answer this question in the latest of his impressive exercises in showing the relevance of ...

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since ...