...Kirill Romanyuk Purpose This article tests the lead–lag relationship between the credit default swap (CDS) and the stock markets during the global financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic for companies across the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Design...

... weakened purchasing power, reduced nutritional intake and rising psychological stress. In contrast, higher-income MENA countries exhibit greater resilience due to fiscal capacity, food subsidies and social protection programs. The COVID-19 health crisis and the political instability, particularly...

...Vincenzo Alfano; Alessandro Scaletti Purpose This study analyses how educational attainment shapes emergency department (ED) utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the Campania region in Italy. Are different levels of education associated with heterogeneous behavioral responses...

...Susana Cró; Pedro Correia; Ricardo Gouveia; António Miguel Martins Purpose This article examines the short-term market reaction of global e-commerce firms around different phases of COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine the impact of different phases of COVID-19 on global e...

...Metin İlbasmış Purpose The study examines the impact of high inflation on Turkish firms listed on Borsa Istanbul between 2017 and 2022, focusing on COVID-19. This paper explores the complex relationship between macroeconomic volatility, external shocks and profitability in the context of inflation...

...Vladislava Stanková; Raffaele Scuderi; Victoria Mogni Purpose Traveler vulnerability to extreme events is an understudied concept in the literature. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its importance and underscored the need for comprehensive research in this area. This study explores...

...Mohamad Ahmadian Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on electronic payments and to predict future trends in this sector using advanced grey forecasting models. It seeks to fill the research gap in understanding how digital payment behaviors have evolved post...

... with latent autoregressive factors. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates the relationship between happiness and household debt repayments during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Findings Our findings suggest that the pandemic has led to a decline in happiness, but an increase...

... 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Rate of return to schooling COVID-19 Wage differential Industry difference The recession that followed the COVID-19 pandemic led to large declines in output and increases in unemployment for many economies. For the US, real...

...Francesco Andreoli; Vincenzo Prete; Claudio Zoli Purpose This paper investigates one of the potential costs of rising segregation in American cities by evaluating empirically the extent at which ethnic-based segregation contributes to the onset and the speed of propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic...

...Abdullah Altun; Pınar Tat; Halit Yanikkaya Purpose This paper explores the association between a variety of trade and government policy measures of both home and trade partners introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic within the gravity-like framework by using the Turkish bilateral trade statistics...

...Chiara Dalle Nogare; Raffaele Scuderi Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has induced tourism destinations to reconsider organisational aspects related to health safety measures, as perceptions of health safety may have become particularly important for tourists. Using data from summer 2020, the period...

...Mohit Kumar Purpose To estimate the volatility of exchange and stock markets and examine its spillover within and across the member countries of BRICS during COVID-19 and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes the “dynamic conditional...

...Apica Sharma; Paras Sachdeva Purpose The study focuses on examining the impact of the supply shock on the Indian macroeconomic variables during the COVID-19 period. Design/methodology/approach Time-varying factor augmented vector autoregressive model has been employed to study the asymmetry...

...Apostolos G. Katsafados; Sotirios Nikoloutsopoulos; George N. Leledakis Purpose Using textual analysis the authors study the relationship between social media sentiments and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study analysis is based on a sample...

...Emmanuel Mamatzakis; Mike G. Tsionas; Steven Ongena Purpose In this paper, the authors investigate whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts household finances, like household debt repayments in the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs a vector autoregressive (VAR...

...Kowsar Yousefi; Ali Taiebnia Purpose Following the COVID-19 outbreak, there are concerns whether economies are becoming farther from equality and competency. While this matters to every economy, it is more crucial for developing ones who already suffer from income inequalities and lack...

... of 1,248 that were identified. Design/methodology/approach In addition to the serious health issues it causes, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) has a destructive impact on the global economy. The objectives of this study are (1) to examine the growing literature on variations...

...Bisharat Hussain Chang; Raheel Gohar; Omer Faruk Derindag; Emmanuel Uche Purpose This research examines the impact of lockdown stringency measures and COVID-19 cases on food and healthcare prices in six Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Turkey (BRICST) countries. This research...

...Theodoros Daglis Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic is known to have affected the logistics and supply chains; however, there is no adequate empirical evidence to prove in which way it has affected the relationship between the stocks related to this field with the corresponding cryptocurrencies...