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Coronavirus shock to financial stability

• Enrico Perotti

Enrico Perotti tells Tim Phillips that while regulatory reform means that banks are unlikely to be at risk, the same is not true for the shadow banking sector.

Who's in the books?

• Betsey Stevenson

Textual analysis of the leading principles of economics textbooks reveals that the world students are exposed to in the books is very male.

COVID-19: Stock Market Reactions

• Steven Davis

No previous infectious disease outbreak, including the Spanish flu, has impacted the stock market as powerfully as the Covid-19 pandemic. Steven Davis and his co-authors use text-based analysis of newspaper reports back to 1900 to track stock market volatility.

Covid Economics: Resilience and Governance

• Frédéric Jenny

Frédéric Jenny (ESSEC Business Scool, OECD) , talks about his recent paper for CEPR's new Covid Economics Review, 'Economic resilience, globalisation and market governance: Facing the Covid-19 test'

The real value of soft skills

• Richard Blundell

How do some workers who left school at a relatively young age with low qualifications go on to succeed in the labour market?

Revealing gender biases

• Paola Sapienza

Does culture affect economic outcomes?

• Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza argues that immigrants are particularly good proof of certain cultural aspects, because they may live in economic conditions that are very different from their country of origin. 

Economics in the Time of Covid-19

• Richard Baldwin
• Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Richard Baldwin and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR) talk to Tim Phillips about the central themes of the new CEPR 'instant' eBook, addressing key economic questions around the spread of Covid-19.

Trust, social capital and finance in Italy

• Paola Sapienza

The upward mobility of immigrants

• Leah Boustan

Are the children of immgrants to the US who are being raised below the middle class able to move up?

Culture and attitudes to work

• Josef Zweimüller

Can differences in culture and attitudes towards work explain differences in unemployment across time and space?

Does regulation stop innovation?

• John Van Reenen

John Van Reenen argues that the basis for the claim that regulation inhibits innovation is weak