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Pandemic in the Network Society. the Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Spreading Features in Europe and Latin America
Milovidov, Vladimir - 2020
likelihood of contracting a new coronavirus in European and Latin American countries. The author presents several data sets to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824311
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EU competition law: an unaffordable luxury in times of crisis?
Massey, Patrick; McDowell, Moore - 2020
The paper looks at two aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. These are (i) the nature of this event and its implication for evaluating past policy and policy into the future, and (ii) the suitability of proposed changes in the implementation of competition policy affecting firm behaviour, market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221295
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Occupational Health and Safety : The Role of Information and Financial Linkage
Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Maggie; Xia, Xing - 2022
A field experiment in Bangladesh provides informal firms information on occupational health and safety (OHS). One treatment arm (T1) focuses on OHS training while a second treatment arm (T2) provides OHS training plus financial linkages to address credit constraints. Two years after the...
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Setting policy on asylum : has the EU got it right? : harmonizing asylum policies, a noble goal, does not produce the best outcomes for refugees or host country populations
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2015
Policy toward asylum-seekers has been controversial. Since the late 1990s, the EU has been developing a Common European Asylum System, but without clearly identifying the basis for cooperation. Providing a safe haven for refugees can be seen as a public good and this provides the rationale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429970
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Does the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Influence the FX? A Note
Vasileiou, Evangelos - 2021
This note shows that the effective response of a country in its battle against COVID-19 influences the exchange rate of its currency. Particularly, we examine the GBPUSD, AUDUSD and AUDGBP pairs of currency during the COVID-19 outbreak and the results show that the domestic currency of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251447
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The COVID-19 curtain : can past communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination decisions across Europe? To study this question we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178127
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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination decisions across Europe? To study this question we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698067
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The People's Bank of China's response to the coronavirus pandemic : a quantitative assessment
Funke, Michael; Tsang, Andrew - 2020
underlying unobserved component. We use the derived indicator to trace the response of the PBoC to the coronavirus pandemic. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225365
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COVID-19 and the Contours of the Impending Global Crisis : Western Meltdown, European Fallout?
Tausch, Arno - 2020
new coronavirus of probable bat origin” are nearly beyond our imaginations. In this article we show that the world faces … world is confronted with both of these frightening scenarios. The rise of China to a global position of dominance is now … irreversible, and seems to revert the world to the geographical and economic order which existed before the age of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092290
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The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 interventions : toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach
Dorn, Florian; Lange, Berit; Braml, Martin; Gstrein, David - 2022
Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and nonpharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics, however, produce economic, social, and medical costs. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455788