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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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Are foreign banks a "safe haven"? : evidence from past banking crises

Adler, Gustavo; Cerutti, Eugenio M. - 2015

behavior of depositors vis-à-vis foreign banks. We rely on data from the banking crises in Argentina and Uruguay over the …

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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021

. In contrast to the traditional view that agricultural employment outflows are largely driven by productivity differences …

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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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Changes in prudential policy instruments : a new cross-country database

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Correa, Ricardo; Fiorentino, Elisabetta - 2016

This paper documents the features of a new database that focuses on changes in the intensity in the usage of several widely used prudential tools, taking into account both macro-prudential and micro-prudential objectives. The database coverage is broad, spanning 64 countries, and with quarterly...

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Financial crises and the composition of cross-border lending

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Hale, Galina; Minoiu, Camelia - 2014

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