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    <title>Shaping women's fortunes: Inheritance and gender disparities</title>
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    <description>Title: Shaping women's fortunes: Inheritance and gender disparities
Authors: Crowther, Naomi; Roos, Louisa
Abstract: Women are more dependent on intra- and inter-generational transfers for wealth accumulation than men (Bartels et al. 2023, Black et al. 2022), yet the role of inheritance in closing gender wealth gaps remains poorly understood. Using Swedish registry inheritance data between 2002-2004 and panel data on individual wealth portfolios and labour income from 1999-2007, we compare the evolution of women and men's wealth and income pre and post inheriting. Results indicate that inheritance does not facilitate a convergence between women and men's wealth in the longer term. The evidence suggests that gender differences in wealth portfolio composition play a role, whereby women are more likely to store inheritance in assets that provide little capital growth. This difference is less pronounced among younger cohorts. As such, we posit that differences in portfolio evolution for older women are explained by structural barriers to wealth accumulation that accrue over the lifecycle. Moreover, women appear to reduce their labour supply proportionally more than men after losing a parent, which would further exacerbate diverging wealth accumulation trajectories. By disentangling the effect of losing a parent from receiving an inheritance, we attribute the larger effect to care responsibilities. Considering these results, inheritance should not be considered an effective tool to reduce gender inequality, as it makes no permanent difference to gender wealth gaps.</description>
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    <title>Trends in central bank independence: A de-jure perspective</title>
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    <description>Title: Trends in central bank independence: A de-jure perspective
Authors: Romelli, Davide
Abstract: This paper presents an extensive update to the Central Bank Independence - Extended (CBIE) index, originally developed in Romelli (2022), extending its coverage for 155 countries from 1923 to 2023. The update reveals a continued global trend towards enhancing central bank independence, which holds across countries' income levels and indices of central bank independence. Despite the challenges which followed the 2008 Global financial crisis and the recent re-emergence of political scrutiny on central banks following the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper finds no halt in the momentum of central bank reforms. I document a total of 370 reforms in central bank design from 1923 to 2023 and provide evidence of a resurgence in the commitment to central bank independence since 2016. These findings suggest that the slowdown in reforms witnessed post-2008 was a temporary phase, and that, despite increasing political pressures on central banks, central bank independence is still considered a cornerstone for effective economic policy-making.</description>
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    <title>Review of "The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the politics behind the judicial construction of Europe" by Tommaso Pavone</title>
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    <description>Title: Review of "The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the politics behind the judicial construction of Europe" by Tommaso Pavone
Authors: Phelan, William
Abstract: A review and critique of Tommaso Pavone's recent book 'The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).</description>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Agri-business firms and Irish agriculture in the decades to independence</title>
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    <description>Title: Agri-business firms and Irish agriculture in the decades to independence
Authors: Barry, Frank
Abstract: Most agricultural output in early 20th century Ireland was consumed on the farm or exported in an unprocessed state. A significant share nevertheless served as an input to Irish industry. While farmers and agri-business firms operated on opposite sides of the market, their relationship was symbiotic: the health of one impacted on the health of the other. Success on the part of agri-business firms improved agricultural market conditions in Ireland, and successful firms frequently contributed to improvements in the quality of agricultural produce.</description>
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