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The impact of COVID-19 and its policy responses on local economy and health conditions
Gungoraydinoglu, Ali; Öztekin, Ilke; Öztekin, Özde - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-27
US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy responses on local economic and health conditions, with the goal to shed light on marginal health benefits and economic costs associated with social distancing. We find that...
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …
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Towards a new form of undemocratic capitalism : introducing macro-equity to finance development post COVID-19 crisis
Ashta, Arvind - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3/116, pp. 1-7
inequality. A major problem exposed by the COVID-19 crisis is that public deficits seem to be the normal state in the business …
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Retirement Income Sufficiency : A Comparison Study in Australia and New Zealand
Xu, Xiaobo; Young, Martin R.; Zou, Liping; Fang, Jiali - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 2, pp. 1-38
We use the 2018 survey data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamic (HILDA) in Australia and the Household Economic Survey (HES) in New Zealand to investigate the retirement income sufficiency in Australia and New Zealand. Our baseline results indicate that the annuitized net wealth is...
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On the association between insurance deductibles and prevention behaviour : evidence from the Swiss health system
Courbage, Christophe; Nicolas, Christina - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-15
Many studies have attempted to investigate the drivers of preventive behaviour. This study contributes to this strand of literature by examining the association between higher insurance deductibles in the Swiss health system and preventive behaviour that allows for maintaining a good diet,...
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How the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the approach to risk management in cycling events
Bazzanella, Filippo; Muratore, Nunzio; Schlemmer, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 7, pp. 1-20
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us to live in social isolation and has brought an important element of social life, the events industry, to a complete standstill. In resurrecting the events industry, the most urgent focus is on managing the risk of any crowd-control measures with a view to...
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Tax progressivity of personal wages and income inequality
Papanikolaou, Nikolaos - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 2/60, pp. 1-11
The paper examines tax progressivity and income inequality using Census Bureau Current Population Survey (CPS) personal …
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Digital payments, the cashless economy, and financial inclusion in the United Arab Emirates : why is everyone still transacting in cash?
Srouji, Jeremy - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 11/260, pp. 1-10
-adapted to countries with high levels of socio-economic inequality. It proposes a link between socio-economic inequality and use …
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Cryptocurrencies, diversification and the COVID-19 pandemic
Allen, David E. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-25
This paper features an analysis of cryptocurrencies and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their effectiveness as a portfolio diversification tool and explores the correlations between the continuously compounded returns on Bitcoin, Ethereum and the S&P500 Index using a variety of parametric...
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Are GARCH and DCC values of 10 cryptocurrencies affected by COVID-19?
Yan, Kejia; Yan, Huqin; Gupta, Rakesh - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-25
This paper examines the dynamic conditional correlations among 10 cryptocurrencies and the possibility of hedging investment strategies among multiple cryptocurrencies over the period affected by COVID-19 from 2017 to 2022. After studying the relationship between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the other...
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