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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 … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …
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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession
Shibata, Ippei - 2020
workers. Unlike during the Global Financial Crisis, however, employment in social industries fell more whereas employment in …
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Macro-Financial Stability in the COVID-19 Crisis : Some Reflections
Adrian, Tobias; Natalucci, Fabio; Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed - 2023
The global financial system has shown remarkable resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a sharp decline in economic activity and the initial financial market upheaval in March 2020. This paper takes stock of the factors that contributed to this resilience, focusing on the role of...
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Capital Markets, COVID-19 and Policy Measures
ElFayoumi, Khalid; Hengge, Martina - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses triggered a historically large wave of capital reallocation between markets and asset classes. Using high-frequency country-level data, this paper examines if and how the number of COVID cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234704
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Effects of Emerging Market Asset Purchase Program Announcements on Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sever, Can; Goel, Rohit; Drakopoulos, Dimitrios; … - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led many emerging market central banks to adopt, for the first time, unconventional policies in the form of asset purchase programs. In this study, we analyze the effects of these announcements on domestic financial markets using both event studies and local projections...
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The Sovereign-Bank Nexus in Emerging Markets in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Deghi, Andrea; Fendoglu, Salih; Tabarraei, Hamid; Iyer, Tara - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the relationship between sovereigns and banks—the so-called sovereign-bank nexus—in emerging market economies to the fore as bank holdings of domestic sovereign debt have surged. This paper examines the empirical relevance of this nexus to assess how it...
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US Housing Market During COVID-19 : Aggregate and Distributional Evidence
Zhao, Yunhui - 2021
Using zip code-level data and nonparametric estimation, I present eight stylized facts on the US housing market in the COVID-19 era. Some aggregate results are: (1) growth rate of median housing price during the four months (April-August 2020) since the Federal Reserve's unprecedented monetary...
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Exchange Rate Management and Crisis Susceptibility : A Reassessment
Ghosh, Atish R. - 2014
This paper revisits the bipolar prescription for exchange rate regime choice and asks two questions: are the poles of hard pegs and pure floats still safer than the middle? And where to draw the line between safe floats and risky intermediate regimes? Our findings, based on a sample of 50 EMEs...
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COVID-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows
Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020
components. Second, the initial shock is magnified due to domestic and international input-output linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826004
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Labor Force Participation and Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession
Erceg, Christopher J. - 2014
In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
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