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Haute école de gestion de Genève

Spain and Switzerland: observation of the management of the Covid-19 crisis and its economic impact

Poch, Julien ; Pasche, Cyril (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDEE 455.

Under normal conditions, economies go through boom-and-bust cycles. Covid-19 highlighted the problem of uncertainty in the economy that authors such as Frank Knight have proposed, particularly the unpredictable nature of economic systems. It is in this aspect that the analysis of the phenomenon is of particular interest, with the aim of understanding the repercussions that the response, in the...

Université de Fribourg

Public Spending Interactions and Local Politics : Empirical Evidence from French Municipalities

Foucault, Martial ; Madiès, Thierry ; Patty, Sonia

In: Public Choice, 2008, vol. 137, p. 57-80

This paper aims at testing whether there exist spending interactions between French municipalities by estimating a dynamic panel data model. Our results suggest that there are some interactions between neighbouring municipalities as regards primary and investment expenditures. A positive relationship between municipalities’ wage bill and unemployment rates is likely to stress a rise of...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Shareholder voting and merger returns

Henning, Laura

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2015, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 337-363

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Immigration and voting for the far right

Halla, Martin

In: Journal of the European Economic Association, ///-

Università della Svizzera italiana

Natural disasters and electoral outcomes

Masiero, Giuliano ; Santarossa, Michael

In: European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol. 67, p. 19 p

Natural disasters are good examples of catastrophic events that may affect vote decisions. In this study, we analyze how the occurrence of earthquakes changes voters' behavior at municipal elections and which channels drive this change, focusing in particular on the role of media exposure. We exploit data from 13,338 municipal electoral cycles where incumbents seek reelection between 1993 and...