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...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

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...

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...

Der geplante Workshop soll empirisch Forschenden in Deutschland und darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit geben sich über die nicht-binäre Erhebungen von Geschlecht auszutauschen. Hierbei sollen unterschiedliche Operationalisierungen und Erhebungsstrategien diskutiert und Erfahrungen ausgetauscht...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics and innovation. Next, attention is paid to estimation of...

The 17th Migration Summer School will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global migration while also seeking to learn lessons and think ahead. The Summer School will provide an opportunity for participants to be able to contextualise and evaluate patterns and trends in global...

The I.S.E.O. Summer School is reserved to graduate students (Masters and PhD) notably in Economics and in Finance, teaching assistants, researchers and young professionals. The upcoming edition – entitled “The post pandemic world economy” – will investigate some of the biggest issues...

The ERSA Bridging the Divide in Economics initiative focuses on representativity and diversity in the South African economics profession. Topics: 1.There are inequalities across space, race and gender that influence university degree choice. 2.These inequalities are present at all levels of...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...