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Contagion of fear : is the impact of COVID-19 on sovereign risk really indiscriminate?
Cevik, Serhan; Öztürkkal, Belma - 2020
significant impact on market-implied sovereign default risk. This adverse effect appears to be more pronounced in advanced …
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Interconnectedness and contagion analysis : a practical framework
Bricco, Jana; Xu, TengTeng - 2019
The analysis of interconnectedness and contagion is an important part of the financial stability and risk assessment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122482
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Sovereign Spreads : Global Risk Aversion, Contagion or Fundamentals?
Segoviano Basurto, Miguel A. - 2010
explores how much of these large movements reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion (ii) country-specific risks, directly … in the crisis, the surge in global risk aversion was a significant factor influencing sovereign spreads, while recently … Spain, as the emphasis has shifted towards short-term refinancing risk and long-term fiscal sustainability. The paper …
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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic
Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020
A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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The effectiveness of job-retention schemes : COVID-19 evidence from the German states
Aiyar, Shekhar; Dao, Mai - 2021
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A Mexican state-level perspective on Covid-19 and its economic fallout
Cuesta Aguirre, Juan Pablo; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2020
Mexico has had one of the highest death tolls from Covid-19 and among the largest declines in output compared to peers. This paper utilizes data on Mexico's thirty-two states to better understand the relationship between health and economic outcomes. For instance, did the states with worse...
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Mexico needs a fiscal twist : response to Covid-19 and beyond
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Honjo, Keiko; Raissi, Mehdi - 2020
path in the medium term as tax reforms pay off and risk premia decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392060
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A vicious cycle : how pandemics lead to economic despair and social unrest
Saadi Sedik, Tahsin; Xu, Rui - 2020
In this paper we analyze the dynamics among past major pandemics, economic growth, inequality, and social unrest. We provide evidence that past major pandemics, even though much smaller in scale than COVID-19, have led to a significant increase in social unrest by reducing output and increasing...
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The effect of containment measures on the COVID-19 pandemic
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2020
Countries have implemented several containment measures to halt the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease, but it … data on the number of coronavirus disease cases as well as on real-time containment measures implemented by countries …
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