Ultra-low Monetary Policy Rates and Bank Profitability in the Euro Area
Carlo Altavilla, Miguel Boucinha and José-Luis Peydró investigate the impact of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on bank profitability.
Video: Economic Fluctuations, Productivity Growth and Stabilization Policies: A Keynesian Growth Perspective (ERC Starting Grant)
Luca Fornaro discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video
Holiday Reading 2019: VoxEu and VoxDev roundup
Barcelona GSE Focus will return in January with new articles. Happy holidays!
Who is Afraid of Machines?
Sotiris Blanas, Gino Gancia and Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee study how the widespread use of different machines affected different groups of workers in the recent past.
Economic Shocks, Labor Migration and the Family Left Behind
André Gröger uses a dataset of Vietnamese households with international migrants to show that domestic and foreign migration decisions are interrelated and jointly determine outcomes at origin.
Understanding Tax Evasion: Lessons from the Spanish Housing Market
José G. Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto and Josep Raya develop a fraud decision theory and test its implications with a unique Spanish dataset.
