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Global corporate stress tests : impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses
Tressel, Thierry; Ding, Xiaodan - 2021
Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability...
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Tracking the economic impact of COVID-19 and mitigation policies in Europe and the United States
Chen, Sophia; Igan, Deniz; Pierri, Nicola; Presbitero, … - 2020
We use high-frequency indicators to analyze the economic impact of COVID-19 in Europe and the United States during the early phase of the pandemic. We document that European countries and U.S. states that experienced larger outbreaks also suffered larger economic losses. We also find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299321
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They … are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can … reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of generations. Managing risks such as these becomes a global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411688
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Monitoring the climate impact of fiscal policy : lessons from tracking the COVID-19 response
Eltokhy, Khaled; Funke, Katja; Huang, Guohua; Kim, Yujin; … - 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the … international organizations attempted to assess the "greenness" of the fiscal policy response of the world's largest economies. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796277
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Globalisation, trade, and growth : a macroeconomic perspective
Bräuninger, Michael; Vöpel, Henning - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 3, pp. 185-192
On the basis of economic theory, what effects can globalisation be expected to have on trade and growth? Does the empirical evidence support this? What developments will the next phase of globalisation bring?
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Globalisation, trade, and growth : a macroeconomic perspective
Bräuninger, Michael; Vöpel, Henning - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 3, pp. 185-192
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003842588
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Facing the global financial cycle : what role for policy responses?
Batini, Nicoletta; Durand, Luigi - 2021
Abstract In this paper we ask whether countries can influence their exposure to changes in global financial conditions …. Specifically, we show that even though we can model cross-country capital flows via a global factor that closely tracks changes in … global financial conditions, there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the sensitivity of each country to this same global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518283
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Economic recovery in the age of COVID-19
Cuerpo, Carlos - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 1, pp. 5-7
Economic recovery post-COVID-19 will be structured around answering a number of fundamental questions. It is necessary to take stock of the extent of the recovery and of the transformation our economies have experienced in the last year and a half.
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Gender differences in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment, unpaid work and well-being in the EU
Nivakoski, Sanna; Mascherini, Massimiliano - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 56 (2021) 5, pp. 254-260
Unpaid work carried out inside the home has increased in the pandemic, and evidence points to women’s share in care responsibilities and domestic tasks remaining higher than those of men in the pandemic, continuing the gender divides of past decades.
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Fiscal success during COVID-19 says believe the good news
Posen, Adam Simon - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 56 (2021) 4, pp. 190-193
Too much blood in terms of unemployment and sweat in terms of intellectual effort has been spent on trying to determine the amount of fiscal space that economies have — our policy focus instead should be on what to do with the fiscal space that almost all advanced economies (and a surprising...
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