The asymmetric effects of 20 years of tariff reforms on Egyptian workers [0.03%]
埃及关税改革二十年对劳动者的影响偏向性分析
Giorgia Giovannetti,Enrico Marvasi,Arianna Vivoli
Giorgia Giovannetti
After more than two decades of trade liberalization, faced with deep structural problems which were exacerbated by the 2008 financial crisis and culminated in the 2011 Spring Revolution and government change, in 2016 Egypt started to protec...
Michal Andrle,Shafik Hebous,Alvar Kangur et al.
Michal Andrle et al.
Published in late 2017, the Italian medium-term fiscal plan aims to achieve structural balance by 2020, although concrete, high-quality measures to meet the target are yet to be specified. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion by...
The impact of labour market shocks on mental health: evidence from the Covid-19 first wave [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间劳动力市场的冲击对精神健康的影响：来自第一波疫情的证据
Francesco Bogliacino,Cristiano Codagnone,Frans Folkvord et al.
Francesco Bogliacino et al.
In this study, we estimate the effect of a negative labour market shock on individuals' levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. We use a dataset collected during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, on a representative sample of citi...
How does home and host-country policy uncertainty affect outward FDI? Firm-level evidence from China [0.03%]
政策不确定性如何影响对外直接投资？来自中国的微观证据
Wei-Long Wu,Changqi Shao
Wei-Long Wu
How the foreign direct investment behavior of enterprises changes in response to the risks and instability of government economic policy changes is a relevant issue which, however, has not been extensively studied yet. Accordingly, this pap...
Autonomous demand and technical change: exploring the Kaldor-Verdoorn law on a global level [0.03%]
自主需求和技术变化：在国际水平上探讨卡尔多-瓦尔杜恩定律
Matteo Deleidi,Claudia Fontanari,Santiago José Gahn
Matteo Deleidi
This paper aims to explain labour productivity through the lens of a Kaldorian perspective. To assess the relationship between output, demand, capital accumulation, and labour productivity, we apply Panel Structural Vector Autoregressive (P...
Does the economic freedom hinder the underground economy? Evidence from a cross-country analysis [0.03%]
经济自由会阻碍地下经济吗？跨国分析的证据
Elena D&#x;Agostino,Marco Alberto De Benedetto,Giuseppe Sobbrio
Elena D&#x;Agostino
We evaluate the impact that the economic freedom exerts on the shadow economy for a sample of 152 countries from 1995 to 2017. In order to solve endogeneity issues, we rely on an instrumental variable approach and find that a change in the ...
Francesco Flaviano Russo
Francesco Flaviano Russo
I propose a stochastic SIR-Macro model to study the effects of alternative mitigation policies to cope with an epidemic. Lockdowns that force firms to close and that discontinue social activities slow down the progression of the epidemic at...
Massimo Giannini,Barbara Martini,Cristiana Fiorelli
Massimo Giannini
In the literature, the positive effect of ICT on labour productivity and, in general, economic growth is vast and well consolidated. This paper wants to go beyond the general term of ICT and look inside the "black box." In particular, broad...
Political orientation and adherence to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy [0.03%]
意大利疫情期间政治取向与遵守社交距离规定之间的关系分析
Paolo Nicola Barbieri,Beatrice Bonini
Paolo Nicola Barbieri
Many governments have implemented social distancing and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Using province-level geolocation data from Italy, we document that political disbelief can limit government po...
Alessandro Bellocchi,Edgar J Sanchez Carrera,Giuseppe Travaglini
Alessandro Bellocchi
The aim of this paper is to study the long-run cointegrating relationship of TFP in a panel of five large European economies, namely France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK. We test whether TFP is determined by the so-called "capital misalloc...