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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stock Markets, CDS and Economic Activity : Time-Varying Evidence from the US and Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Catik, Abdurrahman Nazif; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211119
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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation During the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
interactions between MP and trade. According to the model with MP, supply-side productivity shocks contributed to the collapse of … to shocks that affected aggregate productivity and were specific to multinationals in a few key headquarters countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358332
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One Size Does Not Fit All : TFP in the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Three European Countries
Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021
-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246463
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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347826
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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe
Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348045
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on …, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357030
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Cycles and Long-Range Behaviour in the European Stock Market
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
This paper uses a modelling framework which includes two singularities (or poles) in the spectral density function, one corresponding to the long-run (zero) frequency and the other to the cyclical (non-zero) frequency. The adopted specification is very general, since it allows for fractional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859046
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Forecasting Exports Across Europe : What are the Superior Survey Indicators?
Lehmann, Robert - 2019
In this study, we systematically evaluate the potential of a bunch of survey-based indicators from different economic branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that the best-performing indicators beat a well-specified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861426
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933
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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers
Herberholz, Lars - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842974