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International Disease Epidemics and the Shadow Economy

Berdiev, Aziz - 2020

Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with government regulations and lowers tax...

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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

Aksoy, Cevat - 2020

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020

Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We...

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Climate Finance Intermediation : Interest Spread Effects in a Climate Policy Model

Lessmann, Kai - 2020

Interest rates are central determinants of saving and investment decisions. Costly financial intermediation distort these price signals by creating a spread between the interest rates on deposits and loans with substantial effects on the supply of funds and the demand for credit. This study...

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What Policies Address Both the Coronavirus Crisis and the Climate Crisis?

Engstrom, Gustav - 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has led many countries to initiate unprecedented economic recovery packages. Policymakers tackling the coronavirus crisis have also been encouraged to prioritize policies which help mitigate a second, looming crisis: climate change. We identify and analyze policies that...

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

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What Drives Financial Development? A Meta-Regression Analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris - 2020

This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...

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Oil Wealth and Property Rights

Soysa, Indra - 2020

We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to different instrumental-variable approaches and...

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Globalization and Outbreak of COVID-19 : An Empirical Analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...

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The Socio-Economics of Pandemics Policy

Snower, Dennis - 2020

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus … selfish individuals and more on the mobilization of people's prosocial motives. Finally, to encourage people around the world … encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that …

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