In today’s highly-competitive business climate, it is vital that economists and analysts possess a firm grasp of the economic data that factor into business decisions, drive economic modeling, and influence policy debates. Understanding how the data are constructed is a prerequisite for...

For over 50 years, the European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society have fostered interaction among young scholars and a group of more senior academics representing different regions and fields of specialisation. At the turn of the century, the meetings began to focus on PhD students...

Rob Grim Economics, Business & Data Librarian ESE/RSM, University Library, Eramus University: Data Skills Support for Business, Economics and Social Sciences: Matching Supply and Demand Ebru Gönül Türk College of Administrative Sciences and Economics (CASE) Liaison, Graduate School of...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

We are looking for researchers interested in a one-day replication challenge at Deakin University (Downtown campus) in Australia. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, comparative politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

In conjunction with the 29th Dubrovnik Economic Conference (DEC), to be held on 26–27 May 2023, the Croatian National Bank is organizing the Young Economists’ Seminar (YES) on Thursday, 25 May 2022. The seminar provides young economists a unique opportunity to present and discuss their...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We are looking for profs, post-docs and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge at University of Toronto in Canada. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, American Politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...