We analyse the effect of COVID-19 on the Okun's law relationship for several EU countries and the US. Results are based on regressions and a systematic DF-Beta analysis. Our results indicate that the year 2020 is an outlier in the Okun relationship. However, the direction of change is different...

With comprehensive financial data from Bureau van Dijk and gridded weather data from E-OBS, we estimate the impact of temperature shocks on small and micro firm performance across Europe. Our study contributes to the limited economic climate literature outside the US market and is the first...

Employing data on 3,943 banks from the EU-15 between 2013 and 2020, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship between banking market consolidation, market power and banking stability, separately for the loan and deposit market. We initially find that European banks follow a loss-leader...