F Coelli, P García Guzmán, & E Nilsson discuss the macroeconomic impacts of ageing & how many regions are getting older before getting richer. Policy solutions include labour force participation by women & older adults, tech for productivity, & increased migration. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

New paper alert! 🚨 With Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, we review what works (and what doesn't) in public policies for private finance across 7 major intervention types. Published in Annual Review of Financial Economics. Key findings👇 (1/n)

New paper alert! 🚨 With Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, we review what works (and what doesn't) in public policies for private finance across 7 major intervention types. Published in Annual Review of Financial Economics. Key findings👇 (1/n)

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected]. We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️ tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics) econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences" \w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Violent Conflict & Cross-Border Lending: This study finds that during violent conflicts, foreign #banks reduce overall lending to affected countries but increase #loans to military & dual-use sectors. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/EBRD-GO... #EconSky

Do banks' climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing? M Bernad, @ralphdehaas.bsky.social, & J Pablo Rud find patterns that suggest voluntary climate initiatives can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences" \w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky cepr.org/voxeu/column...

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected]. We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

📢 Call for Papers! Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth) Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

📢 Call for Papers! Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth) Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

❗And here's another RA position in @ebrd.bsky.social' Office of the Chief Economist, this one for a two-year period: jobs.ebrd.com/job/London-A...

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x #econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

💥Join our team of economists to do research that matters!

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x #econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢 Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change" Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE) Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢 Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change" Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE) Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

☘️Very much enjoyed giving a seminar at the @centralbankireland.bsky.social ☘️ Great discussions with the research economists of the Research Collaboration Unit and connecting with the many colleagues they collaborate with across the Bank. Link to the paper: tinyurl.com/5xxsxw85

📢Just published in @jintlecon.bsky.social 📢 "Global Banking and Macroeconomic Stability. Liquidity, Control, and Monitoring" w/ @raoulminetti.bsky.social , Elton Beqiraj, and Qingqing Cao We examine how the organizational structure of global banks affects economic stability 🧵(1/n)

Global banks with a centralized business model (with loan officers hired centrally by the parent and an intense use of internal capital markets) help mitigate the impact of financial shocks on the host economy. However, they may become a destabilizing factor following real shocks

New at JIE: "Global banking and macroeconomic stability. Liquidity, control, and monitoring", by Elton Beqiraj, Qingqing Cao, Ralph De Haas, Raoul Minetti (@raoul_minetti) doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

🗣️We're hiring! @ebrd.bsky.social 's Office of the Chief Economist is hiring an Associate Economist Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/59c49hxv @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social @eliaben.bsky.social #EconSky #EconJob

🗣️We're hiring! @ebrd.bsky.social 's Office of the Chief Economist is hiring an Associate Economist Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/59c49hxv @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social @eliaben.bsky.social #EconSky #EconJob

Tomorrow, EBRD OCE's research seminar series features Oxford's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social 👉Link to Muhammad's paper: mmeki.com/wp-content/u... ⭐️OCE honor host of a great list of researchers - for more: loiaconofrancesco.com/oce-research... @ralphdehaas.bsky.social

Very much enjoyed presenting our paper "Violent Conflicts and Cross-Border Lending" (w/ @alexanderpopov.bsky.social , #IlirianaShala , #MikhailMamonov) at the LSE's #WEFIDEV Finance & Development conference. Many thanks to #JanisSkrastins for a fantastic discussion! Full paper 👉 lnkd.in/edidEdxj

🗣️ Now forthcoming in the Journal of Corporate Finance (joint w/ @sguriev , Alex Stepanov): "State Ownership and Corporate Leverage Around the World" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ebrd.bsky.social

📢Just published in @jintlecon.bsky.social 📢 "Global Banking and Macroeconomic Stability. Liquidity, Control, and Monitoring" w/ @raoulminetti.bsky.social , Elton Beqiraj, and Qingqing Cao We examine how the organizational structure of global banks affects economic stability 🧵(1/n)

🗣️ Now forthcoming in the Journal of Corporate Finance (joint w/ @sguriev , Alex Stepanov): "State Ownership and Corporate Leverage Around the World" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @ebrd.bsky.social

It was an honor to contribute a chapter on "Sustainable Banking" to the 4th edition of The Oxford Handbook of Banking. I review the role of banks in financing the transition to a low-carbon economy, the impact of climate risks on credit supply & challenges such as greenwashing and carbon arbitrage 👇

Women tend to live longer than men in every country in the world. But the size of this life expectancy gap varies a lot. From @scientificdiscovery.dev's data insight today: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Honorable and commendable of Zelensky to hold his ground against Trump. What a contrast with Macron and Starmer. And now, please. Time for Tariffs. On. Oligarchs www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

This will be remembered as the day when America's honor took a deep dive... And meanwhile #Ukraine will keep fighting for all of us who believe in freedom, justice and democracy #UkrainianView www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

BSE Summer School 2025: Economics, Finance, Data Science, and related fields http://dlvr.it/TJCv5m #Econsky

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.

Today, we have a new page on fertility data on Our World in Data! It has lots of new charts on a wide range of measures such as parental ages at birth, teenage birth rates, twin birth rates, the use of reproductive technologies, and more. Explore it all here: ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

Looking to stay up to date with the literature on microfinance? Check out out updated VoxDevLit! #EconSky

Almost two years ago, @cepr.org published an eBook with essays by prominent scholars & policymakers about the importance of supporting #Ukraine. This book is more relevant than ever. Read it! #UkrainianView cepr.org/publications...

📢 Call for papers! We are organising the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”, taking place in London on 2-3 June 2025. Keynote: Matthias Doepke (LSE) Submit your papers before 28 February 2025: tinyurl.com/4bwzyk7h

CEOs are vital for firm productivity, yet poorer countries lack "leader" CEOs, causing mismatches that cut productivity by 20 percent. Policies to address mismatches can boost growth, from Dahlstrand, László, Schweiger, Bandiera, Prat, and Sadun https://www.nber.org/papers/w33324

New CEPR Discussion Paper DP19493 Masculinity Around the World Ralph De Haas, @vicbar.bsky.social, Ieda Matavelli, Pauline Grosjean cepr.org/publications... 📉📈 #EconSky Labour #Economics, #Political Economy, #Public Economics

Happy International Men’s Day! Today Ralph De Haas and I talk about our paper Masculinity Around the World, joint with @iedamatavelli.bsky.social and Pauline Grosjean, on VoxTalks @voxeu.org cepr.org/multimedia/m... podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...