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Livia Chitu

@liviachitu.bsky.social
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Senior Economist @European Central Bank, Monetary Policy Directorate Co-author of How Global Currencies Work (Princeton University Press) Co-founder of www.globalcurrenciesdatabase.com CEPR Research Affiliate (IMF & MEF programme areas) Views are my own

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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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
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Home - Global Currencies Database
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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
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Earning influence: lessons from the history of international currencies
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you @intmon.bsky.social! #EconSky
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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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...
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b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Smoot-Hawley, Trump's Tariffs, and the Dollar: www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying
What are the lessons of the 1930s?
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Livia Chitu @liviachitu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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.
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b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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.
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