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Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

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The business environment in the transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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What policies address both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis?

Engström, Gustav; Gars, Johan; Jaakkola, Niko; … - 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 combat both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis. We analyze …

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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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Container trade and the U.S. recovery

Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021

Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from North America. Incorporating this index into a...

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The impact of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021

This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...

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The Covid-19 pandemic, policy responses and stock markets in the G20

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kang, Woo-Young; Spagnolo, Fabio - 2021

This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the G20 countries. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, which typically focuses only on either Covid-19 deaths or lockdown policies, our analysis is based on a...

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