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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🚨 With Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, we review what works (and what doesn't) in public policies for private finance across 7 major intervention types.

Published in Annual Review of Financial Economics.

Key findings👇 (1/n)

November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM

Reposted by Ralph De Haas

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected].

We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

August 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM

Reposted by Ralph De Haas

Victoria Baranov

@vicbar.bsky.social

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️

tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

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October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"

\w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

September 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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SSRN

@ssrn.bsky.social

Violent Conflict & Cross-Border Lending: This study finds that during violent conflicts, foreign #banks reduce overall lending to affected countries but increase #loans to military & dual-use sectors.

Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/EBRD-GO...

#EconSky

September 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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VoxEU @ CEPR

@voxeu.org

Do banks' climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing? M Bernad, @ralphdehaas.bsky.social, & J Pablo Rud find patterns that suggest voluntary climate initiatives can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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The low-carbon transition requires substantial financial mobilisation, yet it is unclear whether banks' public climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing. This column uses unique survey data from 335 banks across 33 emerging markets to examine their internal green practices and lending approaches. The authors find that climate-committed banks score substantially higher on green management and lending practices, their borrowers are more likely to make green investments, and environmentally oriented firms preferentially match with green banks locally. These patterns suggest voluntary climate initiatives in emerging markets can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk, though uneven adoption also reveals the limits of voluntary approaches.

October 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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VoxEU @ CEPR

@voxeu.org

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.
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#EconSky

Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms.

While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

September 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"

\w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

September 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected].

We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

August 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM

Reposted by Ralph De Haas

VoxEU @ CEPR

@voxeu.org

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Graph of the effect of geopolitical distance on FDI.

As geopolitical uncertainty rises – due to events ranging from Brexit and the increasing rivalry between major economies to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – firms are increasingly factoring political alignment into their investment decisions. This column uses detailed global data on greenfield projects, mergers and acquisitions, and affiliate stocks, and four measures of political alignment, to explore how foreign direct investment has become more sensitive to geopolitical distance. It reveals how friendshoring trends have accelerated since 2011, and how today’s investment flows reflect deepening geoeconomic fragmentation.

July 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM

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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers!

Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth)

Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉

tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

July 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers!

Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth)

Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉

tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

July 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

❗And here's another RA position in @ebrd.bsky.social' Office of the Chief Economist, this one for a two-year period:

jobs.ebrd.com/job/London-A...

June 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

June 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM

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Francesco Loiacono

@fraloi.bsky.social

💥Join our team of economists to do research that matters!

Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

June 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

June 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM

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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢

Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change"

Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE)

Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢

Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change"

Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE)

Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM

Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

☘️Very much enjoyed giving a seminar at the @centralbankireland.bsky.social ☘️ Great discussions with the research economists of the Research Collaboration Unit and connecting with the many colleagues they collaborate with across the Bank. Link to the paper: tinyurl.com/5xxsxw85

May 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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Ralph De Haas

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

📢Just published in @jintlecon.bsky.social 📢

"Global Banking and Macroeconomic Stability. Liquidity, Control, and Monitoring"

w/ @raoulminetti.bsky.social , Elton Beqiraj, and Qingqing Cao

We examine how the organizational structure of global banks affects economic stability 🧵(1/n)

April 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM

Reposted by Ralph De Haas

Journal of International Economics

@jintlecon.bsky.social

Global banks with a centralized business model (with loan officers hired centrally by the parent and an intense use of internal capital markets) help mitigate the impact of financial shocks on the host economy. However, they may become a destabilizing factor following real shocks

April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM

Reposted by Ralph De Haas

Journal of International Economics

@jintlecon.bsky.social

New at JIE: "Global banking and macroeconomic stability. Liquidity, control, and monitoring", by Elton Beqiraj, Qingqing Cao, Ralph De Haas, Raoul Minetti (@raoul_minetti)

doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...