The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We set up and simulate a Dynamic Stochastic General...

This paper presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date panel data set of invoicing currencies in global trade. It provides data on the shares of exports and imports invoiced in US dollars, euros, and other currencies for more than 100 countries since 1990. The evidence from these data...

Purpose – This paper investigated the effect of international trade affects income inequality. It alsocompares the different effects between developing and developed countries over the period from 2005 to 2014 for 58 countries.Design/methodology – The econometric estimation was used to...

While recent reforms are welcome in many ways, there are still significant reasons to doubt that the post-crisis tightening of international financial regulation guarantees future financial and economic stability. The most important reason is that the reforms have focused too narrowly on...

The ability of Google Trends data to forecast the number of new daily cases and deaths of COVID-19 is examined using a dataset of 158 countries. The analysis includes the computations of lag correlations between confirmed cases and Google data, Granger causality tests, and an out-of-sample...

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than three months of restrictions to economic activities in many countries, the question has turned to the best ways to lift lockdowns while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic...

GFCI 8 is the first publication to come out under the new sponsors of the Financial Centre Futures programme, the Qatar Financial Centre Authority. The Business Environment is still viewed as the key area of competitiveness – it is now mentioned in responses far more often than People or...

GFCI 7 builds on the approach adopted in GFCI 6, with its increased emphasis on the inter-connectedness of centres, to allow a more in-depth examination of the underpinnings of competitiveness. Whilst the ratings element is retained, there is a new approach to profiling major centres in terms of...