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Female education and social change
Bühler, Mathias; Vollmer, Leonhard; Wimmer, Johannes - 2023
history, we find that the opening of schools providing secondary education for women increased their representation among the … higher human capital, connecting women to form a social movement. We find no evidence of other city-specific indicators of … increasing representation of women among the human capital elite, as the opening of gender-specific schools has no impact on the …
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The power of time : the impact of free IVF on women's human capital investments
Gershoni, Naomi; Low, Corinne - 2020
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Covid-19 and capital flows : the responses of investors to the responses of governments
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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Addressing COVID-19 outliers in BVARs with stochastic volatility
Carriero, Andrea; Clark, Todd E.; Marcellino, Massimiliano - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to enormous data movements that strongly affect parameters and forecasts from standard VARs. To address these issues, we propose VAR models with outlier-augmented stochastic volatility (SV) that combine transitory and persistent changes in volatility. The resulting...
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The trade impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
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Inflation expectations, inflation target credibility and the COVID-19 pandemic : new evidence from Germany
Coleman, Winnie; Nautz, Dieter - 2021
Using the exact wording of the ECB's definition of price-stability, we started a representative online survey of German citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation target. Our results indicate that credibility has...
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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?
Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2021
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a...
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Pandemic recessions and contact tracing
Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2021
We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model in which infected agents may not show any symptoms of the disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly...
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On the importance of fiscal space : evidence from short sellers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Greppmair, Stefan; Jank, Stephan; Smajlbegovic, Esad - 2021
Using the exogenous shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, we study how informed market participants evaluate fiscal space. Short-selling activity shifted upon the onset of the pandemic towards companies with low financial flexibility only in countries with limited fiscal space. Among these companies,...
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What drives remittances during a global shock? : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
Ambrosius, Christian; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; … - 2021
During a global shock two forces act upon international remittances in opposite directions: income losses among migrants may reduce their ability to send remittances and, at the same time, migrants' concern for their family's wellbeing may prompt them to send more remittances back home. Which of...
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