Existing research has shown that deprived areas were impacted to a greater extent by the COVID-19 pandemic in a multitude of ways but particularly in terms of the health impact. This research examines the health impact of the pandemic on people living in disadvantaged areas in Ireland. Health...

Dieses Policy Paper untersucht die geopolitische und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung des EU-Mercosur-Abkommens für die Europäische Union (EU) im Rahmen der neuen Wirtschaftssicherheitsstrategie der EU (European Economic Security Strategy). Angesichts geopolitischer Veränderungen und wachsender...

Since its introduction in 1974, the concept of burnout has generated a lot of scientific research. The World Health Organization only recently recognised it as an occupational phenomenon, defined as a 'prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job and...

We examine effects of government-imposed employment targets on firm behavior. Theoretically, such policies create "polarization," causing low-productivity firms to exit the market while others temporarily distort their employment upward. Dynamically, firms are incentivized to improve...

We study the recent Australian experience with yield curve control (YCC) of government bonds as perhaps the best evidence of how this policy might work in other developed economies. We interpret the evidence with a simple model in which YCC affects prices of both government and other bonds via...

This paper builds on Baqaee and Farhi (2022) and di Giovanni et al. (2022) to quantify the contribution of fiscal policy to U.S. inflation over the December 2019-June 2022 period. Model calibrations show that aggregate demand shocks explain roughly two-thirds of total model-based inflation, and...