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)

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

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

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📢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. 🧵

📢 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 👉

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🌟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

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📢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

☘️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

Very much enjoyed presenting our paper "Violent Conflicts and Cross-Border Lending" (w/ @alexanderpopov.bsky.social , #IlirianaShala , #MikhailMamonov) at the LSE's #WEFIDEV Finance & Development conference. Many thanks to #JanisSkrastins for a fantastic discussion!

Full paper 👉 lnkd.in/edidEdxj

🗣️ Now forthcoming in the Journal of Corporate Finance (joint w/ @sguriev , Alex Stepanov):

"State Ownership and Corporate Leverage Around the World"

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It was an honor to contribute a chapter on "Sustainable Banking" to the 4th edition of The Oxford Handbook of Banking. I review the role of banks in financing the transition to a low-carbon economy, the impact of climate risks on credit supply & challenges such as greenwashing and carbon arbitrage 👇