We analyze the financial portfolio performance of Belgian households, using data from the 2010, 2014 and 2017 waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey survey. We document the characteristics of households that participate in risky asset markets, and we examine which households...

This paper characterizes finance allocation distortions in capital markets across state-owned and private-owned enterprises. It does so by implementing Whited and Zhao's (2021) methodology to infer idiosyncratic financial distortions on a novel firm-level database containing information on the...

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and financial protection in four East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries, focusing on the dynamics of healthcare access and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures. From 2000 to 2021, while countries in East Asia...