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CESifo @cesifo.org · 20/08/2026

New working paper📝 “Masculinity Around the World” ✍️ @ralphdehaas.bsky.social, @vicbar.bsky.social, Ieda Matavelli & @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Find out how #masculinity norms shape economic, health, and political outcomes. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Last was a slate of talks at the @cepr.org Tilburg Macroeconomics conference: @ralphdehaas.bsky.social - Technoparks and Firm Upgrading Yanran Guo - Informality+ Entrepreneurship in Brazil Thuy Lan Nguyen - The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers in Brazil www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0xB... (4/5)

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

1. New paper out in the Journal of Development Economics! With Mariana Bernad and @juanpablorud.bsky.social we ask: do banks' voluntary climate pledges actually mean anything? Using survey data on 337 banks and ~5,000 firms across 33 emerging economies, we find that they do.🧵

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Submission deadline tomorrow!👇

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

📲Call for Papers: 8th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium on “The Frontiers of Finance in Emerging Markets” (June 24-24, London) Submission deadline: March 27 Submit 👉 tinyurl.com/59xxkzbb

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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)

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 04/12/2025

Closing gender employment gaps and raising elderly labour market participation could substantially mitigate projected employment-to-population ratio declines in many ageing societies. P García Guzmán & F Coelli @ebrd.bsky.social, E Nilsson @warwickecon.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

This chart shows employment-to-population ratios for the population aged 15+ across three scenarios for 2050 compared with historical levels in 2000 and 2023. The baseline scenario applies current 2023 age-specific employment rates by five-year age group to projected 2050 demographic structures using UN WPP medium variant projections. The “gender gains” scenario builds on the baseline by reducing gender employment gaps within each age group to the lower of the current gap and the 25th percentile of the age-specific cross-country distribution of gender employment gaps in OECD countries for 2023. The “gender and ageing gains” scenario combines the gender gap adjustment with rising employment rates for workers aged 60-64 and 65+, which increase to the higher of current rates and the 75th percentile of the age-specific cross-country distribution of employment rates in OECD countries for 2023.

Declining working-age populations are set to weigh on growth across economies where the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invests and beyond, with demographic projections suggesting substantial declines in employment-to-population ratios. This column describes how closing gender employment gaps and raising elderly labour market participation could substantially mitigate these projected declines in many ageing societies, but the scope for such gains varies across countries. Realising these gains would require coordinated policy interventions across childcare provision, pension reform, workplace flexibility, and re-skilling programmes.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 05/12/2025

While migration can partly offset population ageing, the scale required to fully offset the expected demographic drags substantially exceeds historical experience. Pablo García Guzmán, Federica Coelli, and Emily Nilsson examine the constraints. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

This chart shows the annualised net migration rates required to maintain constant ratios of working-age population (aged 15-64) to total population at 2023 levels, expressed as a percentage of mid-year 2023 population. Historical flows represent the average annual net migration flow between 2011 and 2019 as a percentage of mid-year 2010 population.

Declining fertility and population ageing are set to weigh on growth by shrinking the share of working-age adults across the globe. This column quantifies the immigration flows required to prevent working-age population ratios from declining and examines constraints on migration's capacity to fully offset the negative effects of demographic change on economic growth in the economies where the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invests and beyond.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 03/12/2025

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

Notes: Lines represent population-weighted averages. “Advanced economies” are those classified as high income by the World Bank’s income classification in 1990 with data available for 1870-2023. The “EBRD post-communist” grouping comprises 26 post-communist economies in the EBRD regions. SEMED comprises Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia. SSA comprises Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
Source: Gapminder, World Bank WDIs, and authors’ calculations.

With fertility rates falling and populations ageing worldwide, the impact of demographic change on economic prosperity has become a central policy concern. This column uses a neoclassical growth model to quantify the economic cost of ageing in the economies where the EBRD invests and beyond. It contrasts the headwinds facing emerging Europe with the potential demographic dividend in Central Asia and Africa, highlighting that rapid fertility declines are quickly narrowing this window of opportunity.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨 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...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🆕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...

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 07/10/2025

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

The low-carbon transition requires substantial financial mobilisation, yet it is unclear whether banks' public climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing. This column uses unique survey data from 335 banks across 33 emerging markets to examine their internal green practices and lending approaches. The authors find that climate-committed banks score substantially higher on green management and lending practices, their borrowers are more likely to make green investments, and environmentally oriented firms preferentially match with green banks locally. These patterns suggest voluntary climate initiatives in emerging markets can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk, though uneven adoption also reveals the limits of voluntary approaches.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 01/09/2025

@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

Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms.

While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🆕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...

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 04/07/2025

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

Graph of the effect of geopolitical distance on FDI.

As geopolitical uncertainty rises – due to events ranging from Brexit and the increasing rivalry between major economies to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – firms are increasingly factoring political alignment into their investment decisions. This column uses detailed global data on greenfield projects, mergers and acquisitions, and affiliate stocks, and four measures of political alignment, to explore how foreign direct investment has become more sensitive to geopolitical distance. It reveals how friendshoring trends have accelerated since 2011, and how today’s investment flows reflect deepening geoeconomic fragmentation.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

📢 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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

❗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...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🌟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

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Francesco Loiacono @fraloi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📢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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

☘️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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

📢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)

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Journal of International Economics @jintlecon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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

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Journal of International Economics @jintlecon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🗣️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

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Francesco Loiacono @fraloi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

🗣️ 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

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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 👇

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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...

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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...

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America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel | by Gabriel Zucman - Project Syndicate

Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025

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

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At Least Now We Know the Truth

It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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...

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Video: Trump, Zelensky and Vance Argue Over Ukraine War

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance scolded President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, claiming he was not grateful enough for U.S. aid.

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Jeff Mosenkis @mosenkis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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.

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