This paper models the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on graduates and non-graduates in the UK. We use a model that is designed around key features of the UK labour market: (i) graduates typically earn higher wages and enjoy greater job security than non-graduates; (ii) many graduates are...

This paper provides a brief overview of the recent practice of stress testing banking institutions, focusing on capital adequacy. We argue that stress testing has been successfully used to mitigate bank opacity; quantify systemic risk under extreme but plausible stress; keep the participants...

Research on layoff victims reports that interactional justice judgments influence important work-related attitudes, such as organizational commitment. In this paper, the authors build on this emerging literature through an examination of the role that both interactional justice and...

I use a new measure of surprise foreign official Treasury purchases, high-frequency data, and identification by heteroskedasticity to estimate the effect of Chinese official purchases of US Treasury securities on Treasury yields. Over the past decade, foreign official institutions have purchased...