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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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The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated both the risk and volatility of energy companies. Can mass vaccinations restore stability within this sector? To answer this question, we investigate stock market data from fifty-eight countries from January 2020 to April 2021. We document that vaccination...
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in consumption at local commercial places during the early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era. Since using aggregate …
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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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This paper examines relative stock market performance following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic for a sample of … 80 stock markets. Weekly data on coronavirus cases and deaths are employed alongside Oxford indices on each nation … sample results show that increased coronavirus cases exert the expected overall effect of worsening relative stock market …
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In this study, we examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global economic activity, the stock market, and the energy sector considering the sizable damaging impacts in these crucial aspects. Our results, based on the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model for the data from 21...
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With a ratio of household debt to gross disposable income above 150%, households in Luxembourg are among the most indebted in Europe. A high level of debt exacerbates the sensitivity of household net worth to changes in house prices, which can increase the severity of economic downturns. In this...
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Using qualitative methods, this article focuses on the relationship between the COVID-19 health crisis and China’s foreign policy and foreign relations. My main argument is that since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 health crisis has deepened the tensions already existing between China...
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with coronavirus. Our findings are still robust when using alternative measures of independent variables and different …
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This study aims to reconsider the role of foreign direct investment determinants for European national development and to analyze the impacts of the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19. Foreign direct investment is a source of development; therefore, this study includes empirical applications,...
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