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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
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implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
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France while expansions have a larger impact in Italy and Spain …
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We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
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and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …
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Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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