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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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The return of the policy that shall not be named : principles of industrial policy

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2019

Industrial policy is tainted with bad reputation among policymakers and academics and is often viewed as the road to perdition for developing economies. Yet the success of the Asian Miracles with industrial policy stands as an uncomfortable story that many ignore or claim it cannot be...

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The leap of the tiger : how Malaysia can escape the middle-income trap

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2015

Only a few European economies and Korea and Taiwan Province of China reached high-income status during 1970-2010. Malaysia’s real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively strong growth and a substantial improvement in...

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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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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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Knowledge spillovers from superstar tech-firms : the case of Nokia

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad; … - 2021

spillovers on firms is particularly strong in terms of employment and value added …

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Fair and inclusive markets : why dynamism matters

Aghion, Philippe; Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2021

inequality are characterized by dynamism-a drive toward sophisticated export industries, innovation, and creative destruction and …

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Competition, innovation, and inclusive growth

Aghion, Philippe; Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2021

We provide an overview of the theories and empricial evidence on the complex relationship among innovation, competition …, and inclusive growth. Competition and innovation-led growth are critical to drive productivity gains and support broad …-based growth. However, new technologies and trends in market concentration are stifling future innovation while contributing to the …

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