This paper provides an empirical evaluation of countries’ performance in fighting COVID-19, utilizing a performance index (which we call the Disaster Index) based on four health and economic indicators: deaths per population size, deaths per confirmed cases, and quarterly real GDP and monthly...

Firm-level data on productivity, financial activity and firms' international linkages have become essential for research in the fields of macro, international finance and growth. This paper describes the development of a firm-level global panel dataset for public and private companies based on...

This paper builds on the recent debate on the in-sample and out-of-sample predictability of US aggregate returns using a wide range of predictors by providing new evidence for smaller and less market-oriented European countries. We find evidence that macro and technical predictors can...

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...

This paper examines the neoliberal claim that the only way to achieve sustainable growth and full employment is to abandon Keynesian macroeconomic management and the welfare state and bring back flexible labour market policies. It summarises the conditions required for neoliberal policies to...

We investigate the degree of “Exports of Goods and Services” for 27 European Countries in the period 2010-2019 with an equation of 48 variables. Data are estimated with Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Panel Data with Random Effects, Pooled OLS and WLS. We found that the “Exports of Goods...

The recent years in the European Union are characterised by various initiatives on internationalisation of the State's powers of the EU Member States. This internationalisation can have different scenarios. The scenario that dominates currently pending legislation initiatives implements an...

In this essay, we examine the reasons why the economic analysis of law has not flourished in European countries as it has in the U.S. In particular, we focus on three European countries - the United Kingdom (U.K.), Germany, and France. We argue that differences in culture, the legal system and...