Video: Heterogeneity, Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations (ERC Grant)
ERC Advanced Grant project by Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and BSE)
The impact of ideological consistency and valence on political parties’ incentives
Enriqueta Aragonès and Dimitrios Xefteris propose a model explaining political parties’ incentives to flip their policy proposals and nominate candidates of lower perceived quality.
The differential impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurship
How did COVID-19 affect entrepreneurship and the creation of new businesses? Christoph Albert, Andrea Caggese, Beatriz González, and Victor Martin-Sanchez study the impact of the pandemic and the subsequent recession on new businesses’ dynamics using survey data for Spain.
Lifting women up: Do gender quotas help women advance their careers?
Gender diversity at the top of corporations has become a more and more ubiquitous concern in recent years. Many European countries have introduced some board quotas for the underrepresented gender in their regulation. Alexandra Fedorets and Anna Gibert study the case of gender quotas by gathering data of the largest 1,128 firms around the time Germany announced an introduction of a gender quota on corporate boards.
