Given the extreme dependence of agriculture on weather conditions, this paper analyses the effect of climatic variations on this economic sector, by considering both a huge dataset and a flexible spatio-temporal model specification. In particular, we study the response of N-fertilizer...

Using data for most of the year 2020, we analysed the impact of COVID-19 deaths on a given country regarding the financial market returns of neighbouring countries. Our empirical evidence show that in the first weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, until mid-March 2020, the spatial effect of COVID-19...