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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020

We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...

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Fiscal policy’s role in economic resilience to climate shocks

Rezai, Armon; Ruch, Franz; Choudhary, Rishabh; … - 2024

The impacts of climate change on developing economies are becoming increasingly severe, creating challenges for risk management and requiring enhanced levels of resilience. This paper explores how to mitigate the effects of such climate shocks on developing economies, placing a particular focus...

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Resilience, supply chains and the great recession

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2017 - This version: May 2017

We analyse the link between supply chains and the extent to which the Great Recession has affected national economies. Our analysis is in two steps, namely first for value added measures of supply chains and then for the Grubel-Lloyd index using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures...

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Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters?...

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Stress and coping : an economic approach

Wälde, Klaus - 2018

We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled...

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...

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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?

Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of … 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …

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International sanctions and internal conflict : the case of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gutmann, Jerg - 2024

This study investigates the case of Iran to evaluate how changes in the intensity of international sanctions affect … terrorism risk. In contrast, the risk of civil war declines after an increase in sanction intensity. These findings for Iran …

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