Search Results - subject:"Stringency"

Policy-Induced Innovation in Clean Technologies: Evidence from the Car Market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

particular on breakthrough technologies in the automotive industry. We develop an intuitive measure of standard stringency that …

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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

. Additionally, we analyse the role of the stringency of environmental policies in reducing a country’s carbon inefficiency measured …

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Do COVID-19 containment measures work? Evidence from Switzerland

Pleninger, Regina; Streicher, Sina; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2021

Switzerland. First, we collect sub-national data and construct indices that capture the stringency of containment measures at the … interest via structural impulse responses. Our results suggest that increases in the stringency of containment measures lead to …

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COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown fine optimality

Niavis, Spyros; Kallioras, Dimitris; Vlontzos, George; … - In: Economies 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-26

The first stream of economic studies on public policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the stringency … stringency indicators are compiled, and the stringency of fines is evaluated in a comparative context, among the countries … considered. Consequently, the fine stringency is incorporated into a regression analysis with various epidemiological …

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic change human mobility equally worldwide? Cross-country cluster analysis

Czech, Katarzyna; Davy, Anna; Wielechowski, Michał - In: Economies 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-19

investigate whether the differences between distinguished clusters result from the stringency of government anti-COVID-19 policy … separately. We group the countries into four clusters in terms of stringency level of government anti-COVID-19 policy and six …

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"Too shocked to search" the COVID-19 shutdowns' impact on the search for apprenticeships

Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 157 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15

Even though the recession in Switzerland triggered by COVID-19 ultimately remained without consequences for the apprenticeship market, significantly fewer apprenticeship contracts had been signed in the months of the first shutdown in 2020 than in the same months of the previous year. Using...

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Divided We Survive? Multi-Level Governance and Policy Uncertainty during the First Wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-i-Font, Joan; … - 2021

discuss several potential mechanisms, such as policy stringency, the localization of the pandemic and mobility restrictions …

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"Too Shocked to Search" The Covid-19 Shutdowns' Impact on the Search for Apprenticeships

Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first analysis of apprenticeship supply that allows us to analyse the effects of the shutdowns triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic before, during and after these shutdowns by means of daily searches for vacant apprenticeships. Analysing over 10...

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"Too Shocked to Search": The COVID-19 Shutdowns' Impact on the Search for Apprenticeships

Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

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The Trade Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021

Using a gravity-like approach, we study how Covid-19 deaths and lockdown policies affected countries’ imports from China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China, suggesting that the negative demand effects prevailed...

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