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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We draw on an instrumental variable strategy exploiting individual level information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358768
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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977143
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When distrust goes viral : causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404578
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Socio-economic attitudes in the era of social distancing and lockdowns
Arin, Kerim Peren; Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; … - 2021
We examine the impact of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide movement restrictions on socio-economic attitudes in four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom). We conducted large-scale surveys while the pandemic rapidly spread before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418542
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Coherence of output gaps in the euro area : the impact of the Covid-19 shock
Haan, Jakob de; Jacobs, Jan; Zijm, Renske - 2022
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168003
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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade patterns : a sectoral analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022
This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated to assess the effects on exports and imports of various sectors and products (selected on the basis of their trading volume or strategic importance) of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457807
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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization
Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337597
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Effects of Covid-19 related government response stringency and support policies : evidence from European firms
Janzen, Benedikt; Radulescu, Doina - 2021
In this paper we employ survey information on more than 10,000 Southern and Eastern European firms and panel data methods to assess the effects of the COVID-19-related lockdown and government support policies on the business operations of enterprises. Our findings reveal considerable size- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534537
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Calamities, common interests, shared identity : what shapes altruism and reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533981
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
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