A disagreement has emerged over whether advanced countries such as Britain engaged in financial repression following the Second World War. A review of the historical and archival evidence identifies eleven pieces of British legislation and sixteen directives that supported financial repression...

We examine the impact of COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic on global equity markets by constructing novel infection indices. Our results show that the impact of prompt and large-scale policy interventions is ambiguous yet statistically significant. However, in this equivocality, the impact of global...

In recent years, the idea that public policy should maximize satisfaction, happiness or some other non-material measure of well-being has received a great deal of attention. In this paper, I conduct an empirical study of the determinants of subjective life satisfaction (SLS) in the European...