This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research). His main research interests are in empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking),...

APIOC 2022 will mainly be an in-person program with parallel streams in empirical and theoretical IO. We have a mix of keynote and invited speakers, as well as contributed paper sessions.

AHEC 2022 aims to bring together researchers working on the economic history of all regions of Asia, as well as those comparing Asia with other regions of the world. AHEC participants are generally PhD holders and students currently enrolled in graduate programs. We especially encourage...

Die Jahrestagung der Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte widmet sich diesmal spezifischen Fragen urbaner Arbeitsverhältnisse der Frühen Neuzeit. Gegenstand der Tagung sind fragmentierte, statusbezogene Arbeitsbeziehungen der Vormoderne. Sie standen oft im Spannungsfeld verschiedener normativer...

The aim of the conference is to build bridges between the trade union movement and the post- and de-growth community, and to situate a transformative just transition vision within the ‘beyond growth’ narrative. It should prompt reflection on how the (contested) concept of just transition and...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum on innovative research and to promote the exchange of views for issues related to central banking among researchers of the Bank of Albania, other central banks, academia and other research institutions. Topics of interest: - What causes inflation?...

Theme: Sustainable Supply Chains in Times of Multiple Crises This year’s edition of the Forum brings together key stakeholders from policy and representatives from the private sector, academia and civil society to discuss sustainability in light of the energy crisis, changes in the global...

We document that the dominant component of overall and residual wage inequality is within plant-occupations and, combining within-occupation task information from labor force surveys with linked plant-worker data for Germany, establish three interrelated facts: (1) larger plants and exporters...