This will feature research from a wide range of disciplines and approaches on the topic of consumer finance. Topics include, but are not limited to: competition and market power in the financial sector; technological innovation in financial markets and consumer impacts, including the use of big...

The conference strives to expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs, improve understanding of the interplay between development and quantity and quality of work, and advance the discussion on the most effective policies to improve jobs outcomes in low- and middle-income countries....

The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

On Thursday 8 December, the programme includes a special session on ‘Inequality and development’ featuring recent research from UNU-WIDER's WIID and SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2 projects.

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

Cyberspace, as the backbone of the digital single market and being strongly embedded in our society, reflects this uncertainty through the increasing number of threats and attacks we’re seeing on digital technologies. Against this backdrop, the EU’s posture on cybersecurity should respond to...

Topics: - The State and the Family: (Desired and Undesired) Effects of Family Policies ; - How Should We Design Parental Leave Policies? Evidence from Two Reforms in Italy ; - The Effects of Minimum Working Hours: Theory and Evidence ; - Heterogeneous Responses of Productivity to Labor Market...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...