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Determinants of the economic vulnerability of businesses to pandemics and similar events
Tisdell, Clement A. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 11, pp. 1-13
After providing a general overview of factors that make businesses economically vulnerable to pandemics (such as COVID-19), this article identifies specific elements that increase the vulnerability of businesses to pandemics. These specifics include the extent to which the demand for their...
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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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Sovereign default forecasting in the era of the COVID-19 crisis
Kristóf, Tamás - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-24
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the economic vulnerability of various countries and, thus, has instigated the systematic exploration and forecasting of sovereign default risks. Multivariate statistical and stochastic process-based sovereign default risk forecasting has a 50-year developmental...
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A new approach for risk of corporate bankruptcy assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Boratyńska, Katarzyna T. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-14
The consequences of COVID-19 will aggravate existing multidimensional risks and reveal new ones. The research gap allows contributing to recognizing the exogenous risk factors of corporate bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic in EU countries. This study aims at revealing how to evaluate the...
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Corporate bankruptcy prediction model, a special focus on listed companies in Kenya
Ogachi, Daniel; Ndege, Richard; Gaturu, Peter; Zoltan, Zeman - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 3/47, pp. 1-14
Predicting bankruptcy of companies has been a hot subject of focus for many economists. The rationale for developing and predicting the financial distress of a company is to develop a predictive model used to forecast the financial condition of a company by combining several econometric...
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Predicting insolvency of the construction companies in the creditworthiness assessment process : empirical evidence from Poland
Balina, Rafał; Idasz-Balina, Marta; Achsani, Noer Azam - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-16
Prediction insolvency is one of the most important issues during creditworthiness assessment, especially in the turmoil … environment. That is why the problem of insolvency and bankruptcy prediction has been the subject of numerous studies focused on … effectively used in practice to analyze and signal the risk of insolvency and bankruptcy of a construction firms. Also, the …
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Changes in consumption in the early COVID-19 era : zip-code level evidence from the U.S.
Yilmazkuday, Hakan - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-10
in consumption at local commercial places during the early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era. Since using aggregate …
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The COVID-19 shock : a Bayesian approach
Younes, Oussama Abi; Altuğ, Sumru - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-15
The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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COVID-19 vaccinations and the volatility of energy companies in international markets
Demir, Ender; Kizys, Renatas; Rouatbi, Wael; Zaremba, Adam - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-21
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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Relative stock market performance during the coronavirus pandemic : virus vs. policy effects in 80 countries
Burdekin, Richard C. K.; Harrison, Samuel - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-18
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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