European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105221
Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni, Marco Letta, Gabriele Pinto
{"title":"Femicides, anti-violence centers, and policy targeting","authors":"Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni, Marco Letta, Gabriele Pinto","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105221","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105221","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the socio-economic and geographic patterns associated with femicides and examines the role of local policies in combating gender-based violence. First, we construct a novel, granular dataset of femicide cases in Italy spanning 2006–2022 and analyze it with machine learning techniques. This empirical analysis identifies areas at highest risk for women and pinpoints the main territorial predictors of the phenomenon. Second, we collect data on all local anti-violence centers (AVCs) and show that our femicide risk map only partially aligns with the local deployment of existing public support, suggesting that predictive analytics could enhance targeting strategies. Third, using detailed information on the timing of AVC openings in each province and a staggered non-parametric difference-in-differences approach, we find that, on average, AVC openings did not significantly reduce the number of femicides, although they led to a notable decline in sexual violence. These findings suggest ample room to improve the targeting and effectiveness of public policies aimed at combating violence against women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105223
Vivien Lewis , Stefania Villa
{"title":"Labor productivity, effort and the Euro Area business cycle","authors":"Vivien Lewis , Stefania Villa","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Labor productivity is highly procyclical in the Euro Area. We investigate the sources of this procyclicality in an estimated New Keynesian business cycle model with labor search frictions and variable factor utilization in both capital and labor. Labor input can vary along three margins: employment, hours, and effort (or utilization). We find evidence for a significant use of the effort margin in labor adjustment. Moreover, a model with effort outperforms one with variable capital utilization or dominant technology shocks. Finally, the effort margin dampens inflation volatility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105216
Jan Gromadzki , Przemysław Siemaszko
{"title":"#IamLGBT: Social networks and coming out","authors":"Jan Gromadzki , Przemysław Siemaszko","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105216","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105216","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent decades, the number of people disclosing their LGBTQ identity has increased substantially. We use newly collected data from two waves of a spontaneous Twitter coming out campaign to study the role of peer effects in coming out. Importantly, we are able to distinguish actual public coming out decisions — costly, explicit disclosures — from mere engagement with the campaign. We combine data on users’ pre-campaign networks with the information on the exact time of coming out actions to construct a time-varying measure of the exposure to peers coming out as LGBTQ. A one standard deviation increase in the exposure increases the hourly probability of coming out by almost 20 percent. We also exploit the non-overlapping network structure of users’ peer groups as an exogenous source of variation, and we confirm the baseline results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105240
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir , Marco Francesconi , Ásthildur M. Jóhannsdóttir , Gylfi Zoega
{"title":"How home exams and peers affect college grades in unprecedented times","authors":"Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir , Marco Francesconi , Ásthildur M. Jóhannsdóttir , Gylfi Zoega","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105240","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105240","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leveraging administrative data from the University of Iceland, which cover more than 60% of the undergraduate population in the country, we examine how home exams and peer networks shape grades around the COVID-19 crisis. Using difference-in-difference models with a rich set of fixed effects, we find that home exams taken during university closures raised grades by about 0.5 points (<span><math><mrow><mo>≈</mo><mn>7</mn><mtext>%</mtext></mrow></math></span>) relative to invigilated in-person exams outside the pandemic period. Access to a larger share of high-school peers leads to an average grade increase of up to two-fifths of a point, and exposure to higher-quality peers yielded additional, but smaller gains. Interactions between peer-network measures and the COVID/home-exam indicators are near zero, providing no evidence that peer networks amplified home-exam gains during the pandemic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105240"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145840691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105230
Christina Timko , Maja Adena
{"title":"The impact of behavioral design and users’ choice on smartphone app usage and willingness to pay: A framed field experiment","authors":"Christina Timko , Maja Adena","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Behavioral design in smartphone apps aims at inducing certain, monetizable behavior, mainly increased engagement, measurable by usage time. Such design is rarely transparent and often restricts users’ ability to make alternative choices. In a framed field experiment, we document that behavioral design doubles app usage time compared to a version without behavioral elements. Providing users with choices—simply explained and conveniently adjustable design features—reduces usage time and increases their willingness to pay for the app. These findings suggest that offering choice could pave the way for new business models based on more responsible app design.</div><div>JEL codes: C93, O33, D83, L86, M14</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105230"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145797363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105204
Stephan B. Bruns , Anthony Doucouliagos , Hristos Doucouliagos , Johannes König , T.D. Stanley , Katarina Zigova
{"title":"The delayed acceptance of female research in economics","authors":"Stephan B. Bruns , Anthony Doucouliagos , Hristos Doucouliagos , Johannes König , T.D. Stanley , Katarina Zigova","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We explore gender differences in the time taken to accept empirical articles of economics research. On average, female-authored articles take 9 % longer to accept. This gender gap cannot be fully attributed to differences in author affiliation, research productivity, research quality and novelty. The gender composition of editorial boards does not affect acceptance time for female authors. Nevertheless, this gender gap narrows as female representation in an area of research deepens. We find evidence of sub-field differences in this gender gap, consistent with differences in social norms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105207
Alexander M. Dietrich , Lukas Leitenbacher , Gernot J. Müller
{"title":"Consumer durables, monetary policy, and the green transition","authors":"Alexander M. Dietrich , Lukas Leitenbacher , Gernot J. Müller","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105207","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As part of the green transition, the European cap-and-trade scheme for CO<sub>2</sub> emissions will be extended to include consumer durables. We propose a New Keynesian model that features both “brown” and “green” durable goods, and show that if monetary policy follows a business-as-usual approach, the green transition will be inflationary, with headline inflation rising by up to 20 basis points. Monetary policy faces a tradeoff: strictly targeting headline inflation slows the green transition, as purchases of green durables are particularly sensitive to interest rates. We explore this tradeoff by comparing adjustment dynamics under a headline-inflation target and a core-inflation target.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145580296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105205
Claudia Foroni , Francesco Furlanetto
{"title":"Explaining deviations from Okun’s law","authors":"Claudia Foroni , Francesco Furlanetto","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite its stability over time, as for any statistical relationship, Okun’s law is subject to deviations that can be large at times. In this paper, we provide a mapping between residuals in Okun’s regressions and structural shocks identified using a SVAR model by inspecting how unemployment responds to the state of the economy. We show that deviations from Okun’s law are a natural and expected outcome once one takes a multi-shock perspective, as long as shocks to labour-saving technology, labour supply and structural factors in the labour market are taken into account. Our simple recipe for policy makers is that, if a positive deviation from Okun’s law arises, it is likely to be generated by either positive labour supply or labour-saving technology shocks or by negative structural factors shocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145580316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105218
Fabian Herweg , Maximilian Kähny
{"title":"Do zombies rise when interest rates fall: A relationship banking model","authors":"Fabian Herweg , Maximilian Kähny","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A relationship bank or market investors finance an entrepreneur’s risky project. Unlike investors, the bank can identify and liquidate bad projects at an interim stage. If the entrepreneur can provide only limited capital, the optimal loan contract induces an inefficient continuation decision, i.e., the bank engages in zombie lending. In the short run – for a given contract – the bank’s incentive to roll over bad loans is enhanced if the base interest rate drops. In the long run, however, the bank adjusts the contract to a drop in the interest rate, and the effect on zombification is reversed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European Economic ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105193
Melinda Suveg
{"title":"The working capital channel","authors":"Melinda Suveg","doi":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Firms relying on working capital raise prices following monetary tightening, and this paper demonstrates that the working capital channel plays a key role in partial and general equilibrium inflation dynamics. The working capital channel arises from firms’ need to pre-fund inputs, determined by their exposure (working capital shares) and price elasticity (working capital sensitivity) to interest rate changes. Using detailed firm-product-level price data, the analysis shows that the average firm holds working capital equal to 16% of sales. For a firm with this average share, a one percentage point policy rate hike leads to a 0.48–2.56% price increase over a 3–33 month horizon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48389,"journal":{"name":"European Economic Review","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145624344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}