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Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession : evidence on “she-cessions”

Bluedorn, John Christopher; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, … - 2021

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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Market discipline and conflicts of interest between banks and pension funds

Barajas, Adolfo; Catalán, Mario - 2011

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Banks During the Argentine Crisis : Were they All Hurt Equally? Did they All Behave Equally?

Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo - 2006

The simple answer to both questions in the title of this paper is: No. We concentrate on the three main risk elements that contributed to the banking system’s difficulties during the crisis: increasing dollarization of the balance sheet, expanding exposure to the government, and, eventually,...

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Market Discipline and Conflicts of Interest Between Banks and Pension Funds

Barajas, Adolfo - 2011

examine whether, and if so how, pension funds influence market discipline in Argentina in the period 1998-2001. We find …

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The finance and growth nexus re-examined : do all countries benefit equally?

Barajas, Adolfo; Chami, Ralph; Yousefi, Seyed Reza - 2013

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Mask mandates save lives

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021

We quantify the effect of mask mandates in the United States. Our regression discontinuity design exploits county-level variation in COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths across the border between states with and without mandates. We find a significant and substantial effect-mask...

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COVID-19 vaccines : a shot in arm for the economy

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021

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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Dampening global financial shocks : can macroprudential regulation help (more than capital controls)?

Bergant, Katharina; Grigoli, Francesco; Hansen, … - 2020

We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of global financial shocks on emerging markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reduces the sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital flow shocks. A broad set of macroprudential tools...

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Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate : Theory and Evidence

Chami, Ralph - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient economies. Using a small open economy model, it shows that standard ""Dutch Disease"" results of appreciation are substantially weakened or even overturned depending on: degree of...

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The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-Examined : Do All Countries Benefit Equally?

Barajas, Adolfo - 2013

A large theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the impact of financial deepening on economic growth throughout the world. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating whether this impact differs across regions, income levels, and types of economy. Using a rich dataset...

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