The effectiveness of fiscal policy within business cycle – Ricardians vs. non-Ricardians approach by Piotr Krajewski, Agata Szymańska

“…We also show that after crisis, when the share of non-Ricardians in Hungary was very high, the impact of government spending shocks on GDP was almost twice as strong as before the Great Recession. Thus, the results of the study indicate that there is some trade-off between the effectiveness of fiscal policy as a tool of GDP stabilization and household access to the credit market.…”
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Mathematics Teacher and Curriculum Quality, 2005 and 2016 by Heather C. Hill, Virginia Lovison, Thomas Kelley-Kemple

“…Instead, our data are consistent with schools hiring more knowledgeable individuals during the Great Recession. Between surveys, the strength of the association between teacher MKT and student demographic characteristics decreased, although equity gaps still persist. …”
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Nas margens do emprego, no centro da pandemia: experiências de desproteção e vulnerabilidade social no Grande Confinamento by Jorge Caleiras, Renato Miguel do Carmo, Isabel Roque, Rodrigo Vieira de Assis

“…Inequalities and vulnerabilities, still arising from the Great Recession, were aggravated through the social dichotomy between those workers considered as either essential or non-essential. …”
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THE HISTORICAL SETTING AND ORIGINAL TRAITS OF THE WORLD CRISIS by François Chesnais

“…The length of the crisis, which is now named not a US ‘Great Recession” but a global slump (McNally, 2011), and the end of the phase where China and Brazil appeared to be decoupled from the world crisis are expressions of this.…”
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Do Political Factors Affect Fiscal Consolidation? Evidence From Spanish Regional Governments by Alberto Vaquero-García, María Cadaval-Sampedro, Santiago Lago-Peñas

“…Spanish regions provide an interesting case study due to both the strong fiscal decentralization and the deep impact of the so-called “Great Recession” on subcentral budget constraints in Spain. …”
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Access to Healthcare and the Global Financial Crisis in Italy: A Human Rights Perspective by Rossella De Falco

“…This article analyses this process through the case study of Italy, where the 2008 Great Recession catalysed a series of draconian budget cuts in the health sector. …”
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The Productivity Slowdown in Canada: an ICT Phenomenon? by Jeff Mollins, Pierre St-Amant

“…While productivity growth slowed in the early 2000s, the ICT contribution does not appear to have fallen until around the Great Recession. This prompts the conclusion that while ICT had little to no role in the initial productivity slowdown, it has been a major determinant of the subdued productivity growth since 2007-2009.…”
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FACTORS INFLUENCING COMPUTER USAGE AMONG HORTICULTURE FIRMS IN THE UNITED STATES by Benedict C. Posadas

“…The operational characteristics of the horticulture operations included in the surveys which have significant influences on the level of computerization included the number of workers hired, level of automation, annual gross sales, wholesale sales, years since establishment, and location. The recent Great Recession encouraged the participating firms to increase the use of computers in their operations.…”
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On Determinants Of The Economic Growth Of European Countries During 2005–2015 by Jiří Mazurek

“…This period was characterized by a strong growth prior to 2009, when the Great Recession started, and lasted until 2012–2013 in the majority of examined countries. …”
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Labour market resilience, bottlenecks and spatial mobility in Croatia by Peter Gladoic HAKANSSON, Predrag BEJAKOVIĆ

“…After the Great Recession, unemployment rose quickly. During 2013-2014, Croatia registered unemployment rates above 17%, which were way over the EU 28 average. …”
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Resolving the US financial crisis: politics dominates economics in the New Political Economy by Jan Kregel

“…Most economists expected that the "Great Recession" produced by the financial meltdown of 2008 would usher in a resurgence of traditional Keynesian economics and a decline of what has come to be called "market fundamentalism". …”
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EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN CAPITAL MARKET IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS by SORIN CLAUDIU RADU

“…The effects of the great recession have also been felt in Romania and the domestic capital market, component of the European financial market, has suffered from the negative evolutions of the world’s economy, fallowing the downward trend of the external markets since the crisis started. …”
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Axel Leijonhufvud: A personal recollection from an Austrian perspective by Carmelo Ferlito

“…This short recollection, developed from an Austrian perspective, touches only briefly on Leijonhufvud’s hybrid interpretation of the Great Recession. More space is instead devoted to analysing his institutional approach to the phenomenon of inflation and its link with monetary policy and monetary regimes. …”
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Robust approaches to forecasting by Castle, J, Hendry, D, Clements, M

“…We consider forecasting performance over the Great Recession, and over an earlier more quiescent period.…”

The aggregate matching function and job search from employment and out of the labor force by Sedlacek, P

“…This paper finds that almost half of the rise in U.S. unemployment during the Great Recession is explained by a drop in match efficiency of the unemployed. …”

Essays on Financial Stability and Monetary Policy by Paul, P

“…It also predicts and replicates the Great Recession, when confronted with a historical series of structural shocks. …”

Awakening the Sleeping Giant? The Euro Crisis and EU Issue Voting in Germany by Luca Carrieri

“…<span class="abs_content">This article examines the alterations in the forms of electoral contestation that occurred in Germany due to the Euro Crisis. The Great Recession has probably set in motion new windows of opportunity to awake the Sleeping Giant of European integration. …”
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The macroeconomic effects of covid-19:the imperative need for a Keynesian solution by Mikael Randrup Byrialsen, Finn Olesen, Mogens Ove Madsen

“…The exact magnitude of this shock is uncertain, but many believe that the setback in GDP will be on a scale similar to, if not worse than, the first years of the Great Recession. As such, there is an imperative need for policy actions of a Keynesian nature, as have already been implemented in many countries. …”
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Eastern immigrants strategies in spain during the economic crisis by Rafael Viruela, Silvia Marcu

“…The Great Recession, which began in late 2007, is manifested primarily as employment crisis and mainly affects the immigrant population. …”
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Fragility – Sustainability: Two Conflicting Major Challenges of this Twenty-First Century by Demetrios Argyriades, Pan Suk Kim

“…With the Great Recession receding, but crises still afflicting large swaths of the world and a climate of rampant distrust adversely affecting governance, it may be time to ask whether and, if so, how and where our field went wrong. …”
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