News in Systemic Risk: Friday, April 30, 2021 (10 a.m. ET) April 30, 2021 Hey, Economist! What’s the Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies? (Michael Lee and Antoine Martin; Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Europe Needs a New Fiscal Framework (Jean Pisani-Ferry; Project Syndicate) Counting the costs of the lira’s failed defence (The Economist) International firms: More exposed but more resilient during Covid-19 (Floriana Borino, Eric Carlson, Valentina Rollo, Olga Solleder; VoxEU)