Nach jahrelanger Recherche auf fünf Kontinenten haben zwei junge Epidemiologen ihre haarsträubenden Ergebnisse zu einem provokanten und dringlichen Pamphlet zusammengefasst: Es beweist, dass die aktuelle Sparpolitik nicht nur ökonomisch widersinnig agiert, sondern eine nicht wieder...

Preface -- The coming financial crisis : it's worse than you think -- Is the United States becoming Greece? -- The debt deniers -- It's about entitlements, stupid -- Social security : facing up to ponzi -- Medicare: the 800/pound gorilla -- Medicaid : strike two for government health care --...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3858999During the last years, there has been an increase in the use of derivative instruments, in addition to significant losses reported by companies and financial institutions, putting the appropriate use...

In this paper, we discuss 10 parallels between the lack of preparation of financial system regulators prior to the GFC and the lack of preparation by public health authorities and governments prior to Covid-19. These parallels relate to: required stocks (of capital or equipment), data collection...

"In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if...

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...