The paper features an analysis of cryptocurrencies and the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on their effectiveness as a portfolio diversification tool. It does so by exploring the correlations between the continuously compounded returns on Bitcoin, Ethereum and the S&P5...

Healthcare professionals experience difficult processes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected the whole world in a short time. They are especially likely to be exposed to the disease agent due to their close contact with people affected by the virus. For thi...

Background: A worldwide vaccination program is the chosen strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy however, forms a threat because vaccine uptake is voluntary in most countries. Care-professionals of people with intellectual disabilities are exposed to ...

Lembaga keuangan dapat menjadi katalisator dalam mendorong pembangunan ke arah yang lebih berkelanjutan sekaligus memecahkan masalah iklim melalui alokasi pendanaan ke sektor hijau dan ramah lingkungan. Namun, sayangnya dukungan untuk mendorong aliran pendanaan dan prak...

In this paper an endeavour was made to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 on the achievement of the investment objectives by selected ETFs in developed and emerging markets. For this purpose, the tracking errors calculated for 18 different ETFs operating on the basis of Am...

The outbreak of Covid-19 brought back to the forefront the crucial importance of structural change and productive development for economic resilience to economic shocks. Several recent contributions have already stressed the perverse relation that may exist between prod...

This study contributes to the discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working hours and on the workplace by older workers, aged between 55 and 64. Our aim is to find the factors associated with working more and less hours during the first wave of the...

Preliminary studies have suggested a link between socio-economic characteristics and COVID-19 mortality. Such studies have been carried out on particular geographies within the USA or selective data that do not represent the complete experience for 2020.We estimated COV...

This deposit contains two Mathematica notebooks and R scripts allowing users to reproduce the simulations and figures in our article "Targeted vaccination and the speed of SARS-CoV-2 adaptation". See README files for more details. S. Gandon & S. Lion