Information and communication technology or digital technology helped entrepreneurs survive the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions. For instance, they shifted to online sales in the face of stringent lockdowns and mobility constraints. The enhanced resilience of entrepreneurs, in turn,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment for transnational migrant start-ups. These changes have posed many challenges concerning altering strategic behaviour and approaches to driving business. We explored transnational migrant start-ups' embeddedness in translocal...

Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from North America. Incorporating this index into a...

Digital transformation is changing how and by whom financial services are provided, how payments are made within an economy and across borders, and how and where goods and services are produced in a globalized economy. These transformations bring significant benefits in the form of greater...

A preliminary examination of Bitcoin's trading activity around the time of COVID-19, Oct9ober 2019 to March 2020 finds that in the first five months of that period, both transaction levels and Bitcoins traded are heavily influenced by the day's opening Bitcoin price. That relationship begins to...

Using a network approach, we estimate the output loss due to the lockdown of the Hubei province triggered by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Based on our most conservative estimate, China suffers about 4% loss of output from labor loss, and global output drops by 1% due to the economic...

The outbreak of COVID-19 is generating shock waves to financial markets and the real economy all over the world and the depth of the recession coming ahead depends on policy response. This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 (measured by the number of new cases and deaths) and brent oil...