The behavior of gold as an investment asset has been researched extensively. For the very long run, that is several decades, gold does not outperform equities. However, for shorter periods, gold responds to fears of inflation, stock market corrections, currency crises and financial instabilities...

Background: In the year 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has taken the proportion of a global pandemic. In this context, the effort of this work is to analyze, based on a data set of 180 countries, the dynamics and nature of global vulnerability to this pandemic.Methods: The results of...

This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards (or monetary policy committees) across countries. We discuss the possible determinants of a board's size. The empirical relevance of these factors is examined using a new dataset that covers the de jure membership...