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COVID-19 and EU climate targets: going further with less?
Meles, Tensay Hadush; Ryan, Lisa; Wheatley, Joe - 2020
The COVID-19 crisis comes at a complex moment for European climate policy as it pivots from a 40% 2030 emissions reduction target to a European Green Deal that is in better alignment with long-term Paris Agreement goals. Here, the implications of the dramatic fall in economic output associated...
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Informal employment : what is missing from national economic recovery plans?
Mhlana, Siviwe; Moussié, Rachel; Roever, Sally; Rogan, … - 2023
Throughout 2021, fiscal stimulus packages were introduced to jump-start the COVID-19 'post-pandemic' economic recovery process. While calls for economic recovery packages that promise to 'build back better' have come from many directions, the under-allocation of recovery resources directed at...
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Macroprudential policy in Asian economies
Kim, So-yŏng - 2019
tends to be tightened when credit expands. The main empirical results from the analysis, which uses panel vector … autoregression models, are that contractionary macroprudential policy has significant negative effects on credit and output; and that … potential policy conflicts when credit conditions are excessive and the economy is in recession. …
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EU's enlargement vs global crisis
Ionescu, Victor-Romeo - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 9 (2013) 4, pp. 319-331
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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance : the role of residential investment
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2014
Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. Income remains in many cases not significantly affected or, perhaps even more surprisingly, it responds positively to natural disasters. Here, we...
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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
Recent empirical research has shown that output and GDP per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters are not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, both are not significantly affected and, surprisingly, sometimes they are found to respond positively to natural disasters....
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Natural disasters and macroeconomic performance : the role of residential investment
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2014 - First Version: March 2014. This Version: September 2014
Recent empirical research has shown that income per capita in the aftermath of natural disasters is not necessarily lower than before the event. In many cases, income is not significantly affected and surprisingly, can even respond positively to natural disasters. Here, we propose a simple...
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Saving lives and livelihoods : the paycheck protection program and its efficacy
Sabasteanski, Nika; Brooks, Jeremy; Chandler, Thomas - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 278-290
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, swept through the United States. The necessary but costly non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) including social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and the closing or restriction of most businesses greatly increased the...
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The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest
Matta, Samer; Bleaney, Michael F.; Appleton, Simon - In: Economics & politics 34 (2022) 1, pp. 253-270
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The proper role of government in the market economy : the case of the post-COVID recovery
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-7
The long-lasting, widespread COVID-19 pandemic has imposed huge challenges on public health as well as economic recovery. Governments must take an active role in designing and enforcing economic policies to address various problems that pure market forces cannot, such as externalities and the...
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