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Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB's objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak...
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Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank's communication with the wider public, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB monetary policy decisions receive in the print media, and...
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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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This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the Netherlands using daily information from January 1st 2005 to December 31st 2008. Time-series analyses are employed to assess the daily fluctuations in aggregate debit card...
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In this paper we explore the impact of fiscal austerity on three different dimensions of public opinion (overall life satisfaction and confidence, attitude towards national authorities, and European institutions). Based on a panel of 26 EU countries, we find that, overall, fiscal consolidation...
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Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank’s communication with the wider public, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB monetary policy decisions receive in the print media,...
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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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-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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