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...

Does income inequality affect banks' credit-risk reallocation when facing financial distress? Using novel branch-level data on Colombian banks I find that facing a large liquidity shock, exposed banks shift more credit towards low-risk borrowers in municipalities with higher income inequality....

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

It is being investigated the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature has produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure...

The workshop will bring together leading economists working on social security and disability insurance. The workshop will also be an opportunity to launch the research unit Analysis in Pension Economics (APE) of the Bocconi Baffi-Carefin research center. To foster the desired interaction, we...

ESSIM is an annual meeting that brings together about 75 economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for macroeconomists from different research institutions and countries to discuss research in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop...

Topics: - The impact of machine learning and AI on economic growth, productivity and employment; - How machine learning and AI has or will influence inflation and price stability; - Implications for financial stability and systemic risk from AI and machine learning; - Empirical assessments of...