Topics: - The supply of unpaid caregiving - Health and wellbeing effects of ‘caring for’ and ‘caring about’ - Employment (retirement) and caregiving decisions - Long term care after COVID-19 - Determinants and effects of nursing home entry - Staffing and quality of nursing homes -...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application. Related theoretical and applied work is also welcome. The...

We invite contributions from both senior and junior researchers that focus on the role of families in insuring individuals against downside risk. Potential topics include: - The role of households in insuring against income risk or health risk; - The trade-off between self-insurance of...

The Covid crisis revived the interest in the topic of short-time work (sometimes also known as furlough schemes or work sharing). In many countries, the schemes were utilised in unprecendented ways. The Institute for Employment Research organises a one-day online workshop on May 13, 2022 that...

Long-term trends like demographic change and climate change pose major challenges for the sustainability and stability of financial markets. For households, firms and financial institutions these entail far-reaching implications with regard to financial decision-making, old-age provision,...

The SBCA Executive Committee has decided that the SBCA 2022 Annual Conference will be held online March 17-18 and 21-22, 2022. This year's conference theme is “Analyzing Distributional Consequences and Equity in Benefit-Cost Analysis.” Several plenary speakers will focus on the question of...

Themen: - Konvergenz oder Divergenz? Daten und Methoden zum Vergleich der demographischen Entwicklung in Europa (Mittel- und Osteuropa vs. "Westeuropa"); - Demografische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa; - Familie und Fertilität in Mittel- und Osteuropa-...

The conference aims at bringing together scholars who are interested in these shifting rationalities in Migration Policies throughout Europe. The call invites scholars who examine the links between fragmented and intertwined multi-level policy fields of migration control, social policies and...

Co-authors: Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com) and Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) We study the relationship between bank capital ratios and the distribution of future real GDP growth. Growth in the aggregate bank capital ratio corresponds to a smaller left tail of GDP—smaller...

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....