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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Covid-19 vaccination : the role of crisis experience

Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021

We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...

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Leadership and climate policy

Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021

This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...

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Monetary policy crisis management as a threat to economic order

Freytag, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2017

The paper analyses the effects of the monetary policy crisis management of the European Central Bank on the economic order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth,...

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Stress and coping : an economic approach

Wälde, Klaus - 2018

We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled...

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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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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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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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