Tag: VOXEU

(Trade Imbalances/Protectionism) Trade imbalances and the rise of protectionism (VOXEU)

Samuel Delpeuch, Etienne Fize, Philippe Martin How much can trade imbalances account for the rise in protectionism of the past ten years? This column reveals...
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(Italy/Government/Pandemic) Government architecture and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (VOXEU)

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Gianluca Gucciardi In the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, central governments around the world played a central role in defining policy options...
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(UK) Wage risk, and government and spousal insurance (VOXEU)

Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo https://voxeu.org/article/wage-risk-and-government-and-spousal-insurance
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(Europe) Effectiveness of national expenditure rules: Evidence from EU member states (VOXEU)

Cristiana Belu Manescu, Elva Bova https://voxeu.org/article/effectiveness-national-expenditure-rules
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(USA) The impacts of unemployment benefits on job match quality and labour market functioning (VOXEU)

Ammar Farooq, Adriana Kugler, Umberto Muratori https://voxeu.org/article/unemployment-benefits-job-match-quality-and-labour-market-functioning
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(Europe) Millions of Europeans would fall into vulnerability if it were not for COVID-19 unemployment benefits (VOXEU)

Catarina Midões, Mateo Seré https://voxeu.org/article/millions-europeans-would-fall-vulnerability-without-covid-19-unemployment-benefits
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(Big Tech/Oligopoly) Rise of the superstar firms: Taking oligopoly seriously in macroeconomics (Xavier Vives, VOXEU)

The dominance of Big Tech and other ‘superstar’ firms’ has put market power back on the agenda of politicians, as well as in research. But although...
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(Pandemic/Vaccine) The value of a vaccine to end COVID-19 is worth between 5% and 15% of wealth (Viral Acharya, Timothy Johnson, Suresh Sundaresan, Steven...

Quantifying the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the worth of a cure can assist cost-benefit analyses of potential public-sector investment to...
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(Trade/Pandemic) Trade and Covid-19: Lessons from the first wave (Alvaro Espitia, Aaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Deborah Winkler, VOXEU)

The Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted both a supply and demand shock across many countries. Production, consumption, and trade patterns have been affected, both directly...
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(Sovereign Debt Crises) Bond returns in sovereign debt crises: The investors’ perspective (Jochen Andritzky, Julian Schumacher, VOXEU)

On the back of the Covid-19 pandemic, sovereign risk has increased in several countries across the globe. For countries experiencing a debt crisis, the...
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(Europe) An early view on euro area risk-sharing during the COVID-19 crisis (Alberto Giovannini, Carl-Wolfram Horn, Francesco Paolo Mongelli, VOXEU)

The COVID-19 crisis represents a unique litmus test for the European Monetary Union’s (EMU) risk-sharing capacities in allowing us to assess whether the institutional...
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(Mediterranean) The economic impact of ancient colonisation (Dimitris K. Chronopoulos, Sotiris Kampanelis, Daniel Oto-Peralías, John O.S. Wilson, VOXEU)

Large Mediterranean cities – including Bologna, Istanbul, Malaga, Marseille, Nice, and Varna – were founded by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans in an early example...
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GENDER GAPS/EUROPE – Heterogeneity in gender wage growth gaps across fields of study in Europe (Rocío Sánchez-Mangas, Virginia Sánchez Marcos, VOXEU)

While gender differences in the labour market outcomes of developed countries have declined markedly in recent decades, substantial gender gaps remain. This column examines wages...
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GLOBALISATION – Where globalisation was hiding, and how far it might go (James Anderson, Yoto Yotov, VOXEU)

The gravity equation of international trade raises several empirical puzzles relating to the decreasing impact of distance, the declining trade-related costs of bilateral trade,...
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MACROECONOMIC POLICYMAKING/GOOGLE TRENDS/MACHINE LEARNING/OECD – Tracking GDP using Google Trends and machine learning: A new OECD model (Nicolas Woloszko, VOXEU)

A pre-requisite for good macroeconomic policymaking is timely information on the current state of the economy, particularly when economic activity is changing rapidly. Given...
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POPULATION DENSITY/LAND QUALITY – Adjusting population density to account for land quality (Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, David Weil, VOXEU)

Population density and its effect on economic activity have long been of interest to scholars. This column develops a new measure of land quality...
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