As fighting climate change becomes the world’s top post-pandemic priority, financial intermediaries, their regulators and central banks have all been called to contribute. A major new research report exploring the scope and limits of green finance and the possibility of ‘greening’ monetary policies will be launched at an online panel discussion hosted by Europe’s leading […]

New research examines how technological change and access to early retirement pathways reinforce each other in pushing older workers out of employment. The study by Naomitsu Yashiro, Tomi Kyyrä, Hyunjeong Hwang and Juha Tuomala analyses data from Finland to show that the probability of leaving employment is higher for individuals who are in occupations with higher […]

While central banks have become increasingly more independent over the last five decades, there is still a large variation across regions. New research by Davide Romelli (Trinity College Dublin) investigates what drives the timing, pace and magnitude of legislative changes in central banking for a set of 155 countries over the period from 1972 to […]

At the height of the Covid-19 wave in Italy and Spain in March and April 2020, there was substantial public support for assistance packages for EU countries hit by economic decline as a consequence of the coronavirus crisis. Survey evidence from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, collected by Roel Beetsma and colleagues in […]