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Spinning out of control: Iceland in crisis
2009
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Shifting into digital services: Does a crisis matter and for who?
van der Marel, Erik - 2020
How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a Difference-in-Difference (DID) approach to investigate whether services trade became more digital after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. It finds that the...
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Bank-firm relationships and the performance of non-financial firms during the financial crisis 2008-09: Microeconometric evidence from large-scale firm-level data
Abildgren, Kim; Buchholst, Birgitte Vølund; Staghøj, Jonas - 2011
the financial crisis 2008-09 was significantly higher for firms with a weak bank than for comparable firms with a sound … bank. Second, non-defaulting firms with a weak bank did not have a lower return on assets during the financial crisis 2008 …-09 than comparable firms with a sound bank. Taken together, these results may indicate the presence of heterogeneous effects …
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Strengthening the Resilience of an Economy. Strategies to Prevent another Crisis
Aiginger, Karl - 2009
, economic policy to increase resilience against shocks should not contain any protectionist elements since these lead to losses …
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Post Crisis Policy: Some Reflections of a Keynesian Economist
Aiginger, Karl - 2010
This paper compares the depth and length of the recent crisis with the Great Depression in the 1930s. It claims that economic policy played a crucial role in shortening and curtailing the recent crisis. We analyse which policies were applied during the recent crisis and which measures worked. We...
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Country Size and Exposure to International Economic Shocks: New Evidence from the Financial Crisis
Brunhart, Andreas - 2022
examine potential resilience factors with special focus on country size, along with other pre-crisis determinants. The cross … grösseren Schockwirkung der Finanzkrise nahe. Länder mit einer Bevölkerung von unter 10 Millionen wiesen eine höhere Exposition …
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The impact of the economic crisis on labour and education in Europe
Barakat, Bilal; Holler, Johannes; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2010
In summer 2007, the US subprime crisis emerged and economic growth in industrialised countries started to slow down. The situation deteriorated after the default of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and despite massive government interventions, the United States and most European countries slid...
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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Health and well-being in the crisis
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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