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Dampening Global Financial Shocks : Can Macroprudential Regulation Help (More than Capital Controls)?

Bergant, Katharina - 2020

We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of globalfinancial shocks on emerging … markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reducesthe sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital … andliquidity, foreign currency mismatches, and risky forms of credit. We also find that tightermacroprudential regulation allows …

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COVID-19 Vaccines : A Shot in Arm for the Economy

Hansen, Niels-Jakob; Mano, Rui C. - 2022

We quantify the effect of vaccinations on economic activity in the United States using weekly county level data covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county-level pharmacy density interacted with state-level vaccine...

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Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on “She-Cessions”

Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a “she-cession.” This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We show...

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