This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

We study stock market reactions to the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 in order to assess investors’ expectations about the effects of leaving the European Union on the UK economy. Our results suggest that initial stock price movements were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the...

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

Der Brexit, die Wahl Donald Trumps, die Zugewinne des Front National in Frankreich, der AfD in Deutschland und Geert Wilders in den Niederlanden: Der Populismus erlebt derzeit einen Höhenflug. Was sind die Ursachen und die Effekte dieser Erfolgswellen? Nach Ansicht von Norbert Berthold,...