Unemployment and intimate-partner violence
Ana Tur-Prats shows that men with traditional views about the appropriate roles of women and men use violence to redress their masculine identity as breadwinners.
Designing a Simple Loss Function for Central Banks: Does a Dual Mandate Make Sense?
Davide Debortoli, Jinill Kim, Jesper Lindé, and Ricardo Nunes argue that stabilizing measures of economic activity should be one of the primary objectives of central banks, in some cases even more important than stabilizing inflation.
Rise for the revolution! The role of information in the rise and success of revolts
Salvador Barberà and Matthew O. Jackson develop a model of collective action, focusing on the role of information in mass protests.
Summer reading: VoxEU roundup
Researchers in the Barcelona GSE community have written several widely-read articles on CEPR’s policy portal, VoxEU.
