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We study the cyclical dynamics of consumption in the euro area (EA) and the large EA countries by distinguishing durable from nondurable expenditures. We adopt a theoretical partial equilibrium framework to justify the identification strategy of our empirical model, a time-varying parameter...
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United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We find that deregulation reduced the gender …
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We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male … 2010 when the ECB issued a public statement supporting diversity and took several measures to support gender balance …. Following this change, the promotion gap disappears. The gender promotion gap prior to this policy change is partly driven by …
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This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms … countries in our sample. Overall, the evidence suggests that in high-gender bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely …
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and find that banks with more gender-diverse boards provide less credit to browner companies. This evidence is robust when …
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-2019 to study the relationship between gender diversity in the workplace and firm carbon emissions. We find that a 1 … patriarchal and hierarchical cultures and religions. At the same time, we show that gender diversity at the managerial level has … institutions and civil society organizations. Finally, we find that, after the Paris Agreement, firms with greater gender diversity …
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The durable goods sector is much more interest sensitive than the non-durables sector, and these sectoral differences have important implications for monetary policy. In this paper, we perform VAR analysis of quarterly US data and find that a monetary policy innovation has a peak impact on...
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The present System of National Accounts (SNA93) treats durable consumption goods as consumption goods rather than investment although rentals for owner occupied households is imputed into GDP. We argue that households de facto treat the purchase of durable goods as investments and thus, the...
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The paper analyzes the problems of measurement of durable consumer prices posed by quality change. Theoretical price indexes are defined and used to analyze several empirical methods of estimation of quality adjusted price indexes. The paper shows that hedonic regressions and other quality...
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This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
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