This paper investigates the role of individualism in explaining cross-country differences in working from home (WFH). Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) of the United States and the European Social Survey (ESS), we isolate the influence of individualism by comparing immigrants...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact both on the global economy and on everyday life in all countries all over the world. In this paper, we propose several possible machine learning approaches to forecasting new confirmed COVID-19 cases, including the LASSO regression, Gradient Boosted...

Using the Euclidean distance statistical test of Benford's law, we analyse the COVID-19 weekly case counts by country. While 62% of the 100 countries and territories considered in the present study conforms to Benford's law at a significant level of α = 0.05 and 17% at a significant level of...

In this paper, we investigate non-linear linkages between Bitcoin and the unconventional monetary policies of the European Central Bank (ECB). In particular, we examine whether a low-interest rate environment resulting from QE indirectly encourages investors to move towards Bitcoin. Using a...