Anticipating the Unforeseen and Expecting the Unexpected: Effectiveness of Macro-Prudential Policies in Curbing the Impact of Stranded Assets in the Banking Sector by Chekani Nkwaira, Huibrecht Margaretha Van der Poll

“…This risk can be substantial in the banking sector, as it can spawn systemic risk. After the Great Recession, macro-prudential instruments effectively addressed systemic risk. …”
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Profit rates and assets-price inflation in the Spanish economy by Juan Pablo Mateo Tomé, Maximiliano Francisco Nieto Ferrández

“…Hence, the study puts the rate of profit at the center of the debate on the Great Recession in Spain, despite its absence in much of the economic literature. …”
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Bounded rationality in Keynesian beauty contests: a lesson for central bankers? by Mauersberger Felix, Nagel Rosemarie, Bühren Christoph

“…The great recession (2008) triggered an apparent discrepancy between empirical findings and macroeconomic models based on rational expectations alone. …”
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The European Union Green Deal: Clean Energy Wellbeing Opportunities and the Risk of the Jevons Paradox by Estrella Trincado, Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, José María Vindel

“…After the Great Recession of 2008, there was a strong commitment from several international institutions and forums to improve wellbeing economics, with a switch towards satisfaction and sustainability in people–planet–profit relations. …”
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A Historical Analysis of Media Practices and Technologies in Protest Movements: A Review of Crisis and Critique by Anne Kaun by Anne Laajalahti

“…The book overviews the topic within the context of major economic crises and scrutinises three richly detailed case studies in the United States: (a) the unemployed workers’ movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s, (b) the tenants’ rent strike movement of the early 1970s, and (c) the Occupy Wall Street movement following the Great Recession of 2008. Kaun begins her book with an introduction to economic crises and protest movements and highlights the relationship of crisis and critique to media practices. …”
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A Comparative Analysis on US Financial Stress Indicators by Nimantha Manamperi

“…Indexes showed a significant increase for Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and Lehman Brother bankruptcies while significant reductions for financial healing processes such as TARP, TALF and fed funds rate cuts during the great recession. If a researcher wants to study the financial conditions of the U.S. economy then these financial stress indexes should be the first choice. …”
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The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development by Nicholas Freudenberg, Michele Silver, Lesley Hirsch, Nevin Cohen

“…In the aftermath of the Great Recession, cities have looked to the rapidly growing food sector as a promising source of new employment, and yet most of the sector's growth has come from low-wage, dead-end food jobs. …”
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Insidious racism and institutional constraints: evidence from national and local case studies in the United States by Kendrick B. Roberson

“…The national case study analyzes the institutional constraints that allowed for loan officers to engage in racist actions leading up to the Great Recession. The local case study analyzes institutional constraints that led to the deviant behavior and racist redistricting efforts coordinated by members of the Los Angeles City Council. …”
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Nonparticipation in work and education in emerging adulthood and depressive symptoms through early midlife by Michael Caniglia

“…More than one-in-eight young adults in the US between the ages of 16–24 were not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in 2020 – a level not seen since the Great Recession. This study examines the long-term association between NEET status in emerging adulthood and later depressive symptoms using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1995–2018). …”
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Cost efficiency and financial situation of local governments in the Canary Isles during the recession by Diego Prior, Ignacio Martín-Pinillos-Castellanos, Gemma Pérez-López, José L. Zafra-Gómez

“…The study focuses on municipalities dependent on tourism and on the consequences to them of the Great Recession, doing so via a two-stage analysis. In the first, the order-m method is used to evaluate the cost efficiency of 77 Canary Isles municipalities, for the period 2008-12. …”
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Is Spanish depopulation irreversible? Recent demographic and spatial changes in small municipalities by Fernando Gil-Alonso, Jordi Bayona-i-Carrasco, Isabel Pujadas-Rúbies

“… Many small Spanish municipalities (those with less than 2000 inhabitants) experienced population growth during the first decade of the 21st century due to a large influx of foreign immigrants. However, the Great Recession put an end to this trend. The first aim of this paper is to analyse the demographic impact of the new phase of economic growth – known as the “post-crisis” period (2014–2020) – on small Spanish municipalities. …”
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Dimensioni e caratteristiche della nuova emigrazione italiana by Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins, Enrico Tucci

“…The great recession of 2007 to 2013 led to an increase in the number of Italians that emigrated abroad. …”
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Temporal and Geographic Stress Testing of Entrepreneurial Proportionalities in United States Counties by Danie Francois Toerien

“…Stress testing of the entrepreneurial proportionalities during a period of economic growth (2000 to 2007) followed by a period of economic decline (the so-called Great Recession from 2007 to 2010) enabled the examination of a hypothesis that suggested that the entrepreneurial proportionalities are not temporally or geographically sensitive. …”
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Universal resilience patterns in labor markets by Moro, Esteban, Frank, Morgan R., Pentland, Alex, Rutherford, Alex, Cebrian, Manuel, Rahwan, Iyad

“…US cities with greater job connectivity experienced lower unemployment during the Great Recession. Further, cities that increase their job connectivity see increasing wage bills, and workers of embedded occupations enjoy higher wages than their peers elsewhere. …”
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Analysis of the effect of government regulations on the Singapore property market. by Tay, Wei Kiang., Lim, Yeong Sheng., Lee, Kin Wee.

“…More significantly the influx of foreigners into Singapore as it was developing into a regional financial hub led to the boom-bust cycle bringing about the property bubble and the consequent burst of it during the Great Recession.…”
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Outlook for the dry bulk sector by Liu, Ji Yuan

“…Passed through the great recession from late year 2008 to 2010, the dry bulk shipping market seemed to have enjoyed some “peaceful” period until year 2014. …”
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Austerity, precariousness, and the health status of Greek labour market participants: retrospective cohort analysis of employed and unemployed persons in 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 by Barlow, P, Reeves, A, McKee, M, Stuckler, D

“…Greece implemented the deepest austerity package in Europe during the Great Recession (from 2008), including reductions in severance pay and redundancy notice periods. …”

Essays in Macroeconomics by Fornino, Michele

“…First, I gather additional procurement data to extend the previous series until 2013, thus including the Great Recession and its aftermath. Second, this is the first attempt at analyzing the effects of military spending shocks on an aggregate consumption measure at state level. …”
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How do low-income single-mothers get by when unemployment strikes: Patterns of multiple program participation after transition from employment to unemployment. by Chi-Fang Wu, Yu-Ling Chang, Soohyun Yoon, Salma Musaad

“…To better understand how utilization patterns of these welfare programs may change during the 12 months after a job loss, we used the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine the patterns of participation in Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and unemployment insurance among 342 single mothers who transitioned from employment to unemployment during the Great Recession. Using sequence analysis and cluster analysis, this paper identified four distinct patterns of program participation: (a) constantly receiving in-kind benefits; (b) primarily but not solely receiving food stamps; (c) inconsistent unemployment insurance or Medicaid-based benefits; and (d) limited or no benefits. …”
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Industry Interconnectedness and Regional Economic Growth in Germany by Shade T. Shutters, Holger Seibert, Bastian Alm, Keith Waters

“…We calculated tightness for German regions during the Great Recession, comparing it to each region’s economic performance during the shock (2007–2009) and during recovery (2009–2011). …”
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