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Globalization in the time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro; Steininger, Marina - 2020 - First version: April 1, 2020
of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed more to COVID-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, globalization … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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A counterfactual economic analysis of Covid-19 using a threshold augmented multi-country model
Chudik, Alexander; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2020
observations. Our results show that the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a significant fall in world output that is most likely long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293790
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850134
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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Did austerity cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
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Labor scarcity, technology adoption and innovation : evidence from the cholera pandemics in 19th century France
Franck, Raphaël - 2022
To analyze the impact of labor scarcity on technology adoption and innovation, this study uses the differential spread of cholera across France in 1832, 1849 and 1854, before the transmission mode of this disease was understood. The results suggest that a larger share of cholera deaths in the...
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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?
Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022
We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...
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Cryptocurrencies, technology stocks, Covid-19 and US policy responses: a fractional integration analysis
Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2022
This paper assesses the impact of US policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on various cryptocurrencies and also technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in the case of nine major coins (Bitcoin - BITC,...
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