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The Effect of Public Corruption on COVID-19 Fatality Rate : A Cross-Country Examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239558
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An Old Plug and a New Virus : Effect of Public Corruption on the COVID-19 Immunization Progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To … public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211733
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An Old Plug and a New Virus: Effect of Public Corruption on the Covid-19 Immunization Progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To … public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658013
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The Effect of Public Corruption on Covid-19 Fatality Rate: A Cross-Country Examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582001
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Energy Contagion in the COVID-19 Crisis
Heinlein, Reinhold - 2020
results are robust to different crisis datings and consistent across different segments of the assets return distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831660
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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 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832195
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The Economic Impacts of a Pandemic : What Happened after SARS in 2003?
Doan, Vu Nguyen; Nguyen, Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2021
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314961
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Pandemics and Economic Growth : Evidence from the 1968 H3N2 Influenza
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2021
We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315008
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828792
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Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657115