• Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic 

      Lenzen, Manfred; Li, Mengyu; Malik, Arunima; Pomponi, Francesco; Sun, Ya-Yen; Wiedmann, Thomas; Faturay, Futu; Fry, Jacob; Gallego, Blanca; Geschke, Arne; Gómez-Paredes, Jorge; Kanemoto, Keiichiro; Kenway, Steven; Nansai, Keisuke; Prokopenko, Mikhail; Wakiyama, Takako; Wang, Yafei; Yousefzadeh, Moslem
      Published 2020
      On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: “[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic (WHO, 2020)”. Such consequences are ...
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    • Debt Rollover Risk, Credit Default Swap Spread and Stock Returns: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis 

      Liu, Ya; Qiu, Buhui; Wang, Teng
      Published 2020
      This paper studies how the COVID-19 shock affects the CDS spread changes and abnormal stock returns of U.S. firms with different levels of debt rollover risk. We use the COVID-19 crisis as a quasi-natural experiment of ...
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    • Here we stand: temporal thinking in urgent times 

      Pietsch, Tamson; Flanagan, Frances
      Published 2020
      The challenge of our era is to find ways to respond to the ecological, social and political breakdown our world is facing as an entwined and inseverable phenomenon. These interwoven crises are taking place in a context ...
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    • Diversification and Desynchronicity: An Organizational Portfolio Perspective on Corporate Risk Reduction 

      Shao, Xue-Feng; Gouliamos, Kostas; Luo, Ben Nan-Feng; Hamori, Shigeyuki; Satchell, Stephen; Yue, Xiao-Guang; Qiu, Jane
      Published 2020
      A longstanding objective of managers is to reduce risk to their businesses. The conventional strategy for risk reduction is diversification; however, evidence for the effectiveness of diversification remains inconclusive. ...
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    • The Effects of COVID-19 on Chinese Stock Markets: An EGARCH Approach 

      Liu, Kerry
      Published 2020
      The 2019 novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has greatly affected the financial markets, economies and societies around the world. This study is the first of its kind that focuses on the Chinese stock markets. Based on ...
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