The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented levels of federal aid transfers to state governments. Did this funding increase benefit state incumbents electorally? Identifying the effect of revenue windfalls on economic voting is challenging because whatever conditions led to the influx of cash...

There is an increasing risk of outbreaks escalating into epidemics, despite huge advances in medical science. Epidemics like COVID-19, Monkeypox, Influenza and HIV have been affecting people and public health infrastructure at an alarming rate around the world. COVID-19 alone has infected more...

We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55 percent of this take-up...

The present study examined the anticipated technology service quality of private commercial banks in Bangladesh, with a particular emphasis on the satisfaction of e-consumers regarding the banking technologies and services offered by their respective banks. Three hundred fifty-five data were...