BACKGROUND Health in Greece deteriorated after the recent financial crisis, but whether this decline was caused by the recent financial crisis has not been established. This article uses a quasi-experimental approach to examine the impact of the recent financial crisis on health in Greece. METHODS Data came from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey for the year...

For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

In this study, we explore how customers’ WOMs in firms’ crisis events spread across organizational boundaries to affect their supply chain partners. Based on guilt-by-association theory, we propose that both the external WOM effect and internal demand-supply effect have a mediator influence on the relationship between news report of crisis and firm performance of its supply chain partners. In o...

Restructuring  is relevant for companies that have free capital and need to expand for development purposes, as well as for companies that have relatively large problems with financial results and the relevant indicators indicate the necessary changes. Motives of the restructuring may be different, the authors put forward the following reasons: operation operational synergy, financial synergy, ...

A the many factors contributing to the financial crisis of 2007–08, the role of the growing interconnectedness of the global financial system is perhaps the least understood. The crisis exposed the fact that regulators and market participants had very limited information about the network of obligations between financial institutions. It also revealed that there was little theoretical understan...

The financial crisis of late 2008 shifted household expenditure downward, as financial institutions tightened lending standards and required repayment of outstanding consumer loans. The crisis also raised financial frictions by depleting the equity capital of financial institutions. The result was a severe reduction in business and residential investment expenditure. The zero bound on the inter...

â â â  â â  abstract: â  china and asean have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. the customs data (classified by the hs code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the cris...