The outbreak of the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 has been declared by the WHO as a public health emergency of international concern, since early 2020. The virus has led to a huge number of deaths and has caused major damage to the worldwide economy. In particular, countries with high reliance on...

Following the Foundation of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its founder Karl Schwab’s system change call RESET, the aim of this declaration is to provide qualified knowledge about the systemic undesirable developments in our healthcare systems and how general healthcarecould avoid future...

Using the daily data covering both the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic over the period from March 3, 2020, to February 12, 2021, this study documents a strong positive comovement between implied volatility indices and two proxies of the COVID-19 fear. However, in all the cases, the...

We study productivity before and during the working from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic, using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company. Hours worked increased, including a rise of 18% outside normal business hours....

We evaluate the COVID-19 resilience of a Continental welfare regime by nowcasting the implications of the shock and its associated policy responses on the distribution of household incomes. Our approach relies on a dynamic microsimulation approach that combines a household income generation...

Amidst the pandemic, discussions are happening about liquidity, tax compliance and economic development all around the world. The COVID-19 outbreak has proved to be devastating to the economies around the world. India’s GDP has been affected by the negative touchdown. Government of India has...