We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

We will be hosting two online workshops in 2022: - Foundations of Economic Evaluation in Health Care - 29 Sept - 28 Oct 2022; - Advanced Workshop for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Meeting Decision-Makers' Requirements - 11 Nov - 14 Dec 2022. Objectives: To inform and promote understanding in key...

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...

We build a tractable two-agent New Keynesian (TANK) model to jointly study four types of policy: conventional monetary policy, quantitative easing (QE), government expenditures, and lump-sum transfers. We find QE, transfers, and government spending can have the same effects on the aggregate...

Le panel présentera une discussion sur l’économie et l’éthique de la distribution des vaccins.

Topics include but are not limited to: 1) Dos and don’ts of inflation targeting ; 2) Optimal inflation target and the natural rate of interest in economies with limited transmission ; 3) Constraints of fiscal dominance and optimal balance between fiscal and monetary policy ; 4) Policy with...

The topic of the Workshop will be SDGs and Human Rights. Panel 1: SDG 5’s Impact on the Human Rights of Women and Girls ; Panel 2: Human Rights Defenders ; Panel 3: Financing and Governance for Human Rights and the SDGs.

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...

AI Talks @ ETUI is a series of inspiring (online) conversations which focus on the different dimensions of AI - ethical, social, environmental, legal, technological - and their impact on the world of work. Top experts from academia, civil society and online rights organizations, among others,...

The conference will feature once more an impressive academic line-up and, as last year, will be in virtual format. The three conference sessions will tackle issues related to monetary policy, credit and financial crises, the role of financial markets in monetary policy transmission as well as...