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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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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 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...
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A matter of trust? : political trust and the Covid-19 pandemic
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622723
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
explain not only the spread of the disease, but also cross-country spillovers in perceptions about coronavirus risk and in … social distancing behavior. In the early phases of the pandemic, perceptions of coronavirus risk in most countries are …
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The pandemic cash and retail payment behaviour : insights from the future of payments databas
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a shock to retail payment behaviour. How have the changes differed across countries? What do they imply for the future of cash and digital payments? We assemble a new "Future of Payments" database on retail payment behaviour for up to 95 countries over September...
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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
daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P Green Bond Index (GREEN) and the Dow Jones (DJ) Islamic World …
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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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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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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 significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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