Determinants and consequences of SME insolvency risk during the pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的小微企业破产风险及其影响因素研究
Orcun Kaya
Orcun Kaya
The COVID-19 pandemic posed an existential threat to European SMEs' financial resilience with significant consequences for the European economy. Using unique firm-level data on SME financing conditions, this paper proposes a new insolvency ...
Balagopal Gopalakrishnan,Joshy Jacob,Sanket Mohapatra
Balagopal Gopalakrishnan
The COVID-19-induced disruptions and the consequent government responses stretched the financial resources of firms. Recent studies document an increase in debt financing by firms during the pandemic. Using firm-level data from 61 countries...
High-speed railway and the intercity transmission of epidemics: Evidence from COVID-19 in China [0.03%]
高速铁路与城市间疫情传播：来自中国新冠疫情的证据
Liyang Wan,Qian Wan
Liyang Wan
In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, we investigate the effect of intercity high-speed railway (HSR) connections on intercity transmission of epidemics in the absence of government intervention. Intercity HSR connections increa...
Firm-level short selling and the local COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China [0.03%]
基于中国企业层面卖空行为的新冠肺炎疫情影响研究
Jingbin He,Xinru Ma,Qu Wei
Jingbin He
Short seller trading behavior attracts much attention, especially when negative shocks occur. Recent literature has focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented shock, but evidence on short sellers' reactions is quite sc...
Unemployment claims during COVID-19 and economic support measures in the U.S [0.03%]
新冠肺炎期间美国的失业救济与经济救助措施
Theologos Dergiades,Costas Milas,Theodore Panagiotidis
Theologos Dergiades
Governments want to know how effective COVID-19 anti-contagion policies and implemented economic stimulus measures have been to plan their short-run interventions. We condition on the state of the pandemic to assess the impact of non-pharma...
Aatishya Mohanty,Swati Sharma
Aatishya Mohanty
The economic and social disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are immense. Unexpectedly, a positive outcome of the stringent Covid restrictions has come in the form of air pollution reduction. Pollution reduction, however, has not hap...
Modeling long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price declines on Gulf oil economies [0.03%]
新冠疫情和油价下跌对海湾石油经济的长期影响预测模型
Manal Shehabi
Manal Shehabi
The COVID-19 pandemic has been detrimental on hydrocarbon-overdependent Gulf states. The effects of the unprecedented oil price declines and substantial COVID-relief packages on Gulf economies are critical, as they can become enduring and f...
A near real-time economic activity tracker for the Brazilian economy during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
巴西在新冠疫情期间的实时经济活动追踪器
Flavio Menezes,Vivian Figer,Fernanda Jardim et al.
Flavio Menezes et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers needed to assess the impact of large monetary and fiscal policy interventions in as close to real time as possible-yet existing survey-based indicators are usually released monthly or quarterly. Th...
Income assistance, marriage, and child poverty: An assessment of the Family Security Act [0.03%]
收入援助、婚姻与儿童贫困——对《家庭保障法》的评估
Salvador Ortigueira,Nawid Siassi
Salvador Ortigueira
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes in key income support programs, reigniting a debate about the design of financial aid to low-income households with children. This study assesses the Family Security Act-a proposal presented b...
Bin Teng,Sicong Wang,Yufeng Shi et al.
Bin Teng et al.
This paper proposes a joint model by combining the time-varying coefficient susceptible-infected-removal model with the hierarchical Bayesian vector autoregression model. This model establishes the relationship between several critical macr...