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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession
Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
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Is the COVID-19 pandemic more contagious for the Asian stock markets? : a comparison with the Asian financial, the US subprime and the Eurozone debt crisis
Chopra, Monika; Mehta, Chhavi - In: Journal of Asian economics 79 (2022), pp. 1-21
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Sovereign risk, elections, and contagion
Li, Chi; Balding, Christopher; Lee, Minsoo - 2013
situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781196
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Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis
Keefer, Philip - 2004
"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522896
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Sovereign Risk, Elections and Contagion
Li, Chi - 2013
situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088156
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Elections, Special Interests, and the Fiscal Costs of Financial Crisis
Keefer, Philip - 2013
The author proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests, at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559874
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National elections' impact on crash risk for stocks listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange, 2002-2016
Wijaya, Kenny Brian; Adawiyah, Wardatul - In: Challenges of the global economy : some Indonesian issues, (pp. 321-331). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385332
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Sovereign Risk, Elections, and Contagion
Li, Chi; Balding, Christopher; Lee, Minsoo - 2013
situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156641
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The political economy of finance and regulatory capture : evidence from the US Congress
Silano, Filippo - 2023
The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis is a watershed phenomenon that reshaped global capitalism. Stemming from the argument that the Crisis was caused by deregulation, this article assesses to what extent the financial industry influenced the legislative process underlying these reforms. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370438
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Redistribution, inequality and political participation : evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis
Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016
This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568213