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Ralph De Haas

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EBRD’s Director of Research, CEPR Research Fellow, part-time Professor of Finance at KU Leuven. 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺. Views are my own.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢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. 🧵

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 2d

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.
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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.

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 23d

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....
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Sep 1

@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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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.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Sep 1

🆕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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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

The economics profession has extensively studied norms affecting women but largely overlooked those guiding and sometimes constraining men. Time to change that! Read the paper:

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Moreover, using new data from 70,000+ respondents across 70 countries, we show that masculinity norms powerfully predict: 📊 increased willingness to work more hours 📊 Greater risk-taking & poorer mental health 📊 Support for strongman leadership.

Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why do men avoid service sector jobs even when unemployed? Why do workplace cultures resist family-friendly policies? Why are men 3x more likely to die from "deaths of despair"? We discuss how understanding masculinity norms can help explain these puzzles.

Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

We first review how other disciplines have studied masculinity, providing economists with conceptual foundations for understanding masculinity norms.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jul 4

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.
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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.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats!!

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 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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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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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

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