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Covid-19 vaccine efficacy and Russian public support for anti-pandemic measures
(05.07.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 09/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 09/2021
In this study, we use random assignment of vignettes that feature optimistic and pessimistic scenarios with respect to vaccine safety and efficacy on a sample of roughly 1,600 Russians in order to gauge public support for ...
Does a financial crisis change a bank's exposure to risk? A difference-in-differences approach
(28.05.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2021
Can a major financial crisis trigger changes in a bank’s risk-taking behavior? Using the 2008 Global Financial Crisis as a quasi-natural experiment and a difference-in-differences approach, I examine whether the worst ...
Who cares : Deciphering China’s female employment paradox
(19.05.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2021
Female post-childbirth labor market participation and labor intensity are extraordinarily high in China, given that public childcare subsidies are limited and supportive policies for childbearing female employees are largely ...
Exchange rate fluctuations and the financial channel in emerging economies
(30.08.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2021
This paper assesses the financial channel of exchange rate fluctuations for emerging countries and the link to the conventional trade channel. We analyze whether the effective exchange rate affects GDP growth, the domestic ...
Epidemic exposure, financial technology, and the digital divide
(28.09.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 13/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 13/2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals ...
Trade collapse during the covid-19 crisis and the role of demand composition
(21.09.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 12/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 12/2021
We examine the role of demand composition in explaining the trade collapse and recovery during the ongoing covid-19 crisis. We apply an import-intensity-adjusted measure of demand to examineimport trends in 40 advanced and ...
Politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia : The case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
(29.01.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
This paper studies the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia focusing on the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It investigates what factors have accounted for the selection of the 2018 ...
Managerial and financial barriers to the net-zero transition
(17.05.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
We use data on 11,233 firms across 22 emerging markets to analyze how credit constraints and low-quality firm management inhibit corporate investment in green technologies. For identification we exploit quasi-exogenous ...
City commercial banks and credit allocation : Firm-level evidence
(09.03.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
This paper investigates how government-led banking liberalization affects credit allocation by banks using as a quasi-natural experiment the establishment of city commercial banks (CCBs) in China. Based on more than three ...
Who cares about sanctions? Observations from annual reports of European firms
(20.04.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2021
This paper uses textual analysis to examine how European corporations assess sanctions in their annual reports. Using observations from a panel of almost 11,500 corporate annual reports from 2014–2017, we document significant ...