Data from the GIPEyOP online election poll for the 2015 Spanish General election. by José M. Pavía, Vicente Coll-Serrano, Rubén Cuñat-Giménez, Salvador Carrasco-Arroyo

“…The general elections of 2015 in Spain took place in the middle of the Great Recession after several years of austerity economic policies. …”
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Employment Trends in Northern Italy’s Medium-Sized Cities from 2012 to the Shock of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Group of Cities in Distress? by Maria Antonietta Clerici

“…The evolutionary trajectories of these cities and their varying specialisations are investigated over a period marked by a moderate recovery of the Italian economy following the Great Recession and by a further setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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An alternative test of the trade-off theory of capital structure by Giorgio Canarella, Mahmoud Nourayi, Michael J. Sullivan

“…We find that the recent macroeconomic developments triggered by the financial crisis and the Great Recession have considerable explanatory power over the dynamics of the debt ratios. …”
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Income Inequalities in EU Countries: Gini Indicator Analysis by Kolluru Mythili, Semenenko Tetiana

“…The development of income inequality is a growing concern worldwide, particularly since the Great Recession. This study is based on available data on the Gini coefficient of equivalized disposable income from 2005 to 2019 for the 27 European Union countries. …”
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Feeling Left Behind by Political Decisionmakers: Anti-Establishment Sentiment in Contemporary Democracies by Luigi Droste

“…Since the beginning of the century and throughout the Great Recession, unfavorable attitudes toward politicians have not increased among the public in advanced democracies. …”
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The Impact of Recent Economic Crises on Income Inequality and the Risk of Poverty in Greece by George Petrakos, Konstantinos Rontos, Chara Vavoura, Ioannis Vavouras

“…We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great recession of 2007–2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. …”
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Participation and Alternative Economic Practice: Discourses, Identities and Imaginaries of Change by Henar Pascual, Juan Carlos Guerra

“…<span class="abs_content">In the context of economies referred to as diverse or different, Alternative Economic Practices (AEP) are actions that, alternative to capitalism in varying degrees, aim to fulfil people's basic needs. The Great Recession of 2008 gives a new incentive to their theoretical and empirical analysis as a result of the new meaning given to alternative economic and political spaces, particularly in an area hit hard by the crisis – Southern Europe. …”
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Fiscal stimuli and consolidation in emerging market economies by Igor Chugunov, Mykola Pasichnyi

“…The Great Recession has imposed vital limitations on the policy maker’s ability to react to further economic challenges. …”
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The Creative Economy Through the Lens of Urban Resilience. An Analysis of Romanian Cities by Sorin Mazilu, Cristian Incaltarau, Karima Kourtit

“…The paper addresses this issue by investigating how different cities in Romania, with a different intensity of creative industries, have managed to resist and to recover from the aftermath of the Great Recession. Our findings reveal that, as a whole, creative industries strengthen urban resistance against a recession, but do not necessarily fasten urban recovery. …”
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Pun in Spanish Advertising of Banks and Credit Agencies by Alexander V. Dzyuba

“…This article provides cognitive-pragmatic analysis of wordplay used in Spanish advertising slogans to promote banks & credit agencies. Because of the Great Recession, Spanish banks are trying to win back the clients creating advertisements that show their focus on future and trying to form a special, close bond with a customer. …”
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COULD VIRTUAL CURRENCIES CAUSE THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS AND WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT ON EUROPEAN DEFENCE? by Alexandru-Cosmin DUMITRU

“…As the financial institutions started to invest in the new currencies seeking high returns, the market finds itself in an uncanny similar position as it was before the Great Recession. A new recession may represent an opportunity for the EU defence sector considering that lower budgets allocated for defence would put an increased pressure on the states to have better cooperation and solve the exiting issues related to the capability development and at the same time would force them to restructure the defence industry and markets. …”
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The Role of Housing and Mortgage Markets in the Financial Crisis by Adelino, Manuel, Schoar, Antoinette, Severino Diaz, Felipe

“…Ten years after the financial crisis of 2008, there is widespread agreement that the boom in mortgage lending and its subsequent reversal were at the core of the Great Recession. We survey the existing evidence, which suggests that inflated house-price expectations across the economy played a central role in driving both the demand for and the supply of mortgage credit before the crisis. …”
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…They also show that the LA region as a whole is largely dependent on external developments, especially in the years after the great recession of 2008 and 2009. The trade channel appears to be the most important source of business cycle co-movement, whilst capital flows are found to have a limited role, especially in the very short run.…”
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Essays in empirical and theoretical labor market models by Torracchi, F

“…Bank lending shocks are also important drivers of labor market fluctuations, particularly during the Great Recession. Lastly, in the third chapter, I calibrate to the Euro Area a currency union DSGE model to evaluate the aggregate properties of European Unemployment Insurance (EUI). …”

Fear of a Yellow Planet: The Gilets Jaunes and the End of the Modern World-System by Peter Wilkin

“…Its current form, neoliberalism, is in crisis across the core of the world-system, intensified following the Great Recession of 2008. This has invited new challenges from revived and reconstituted political formations of both right and left. …”
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Withstanding austerity: Equity in health services utilisation in the first stage of the economic recession in Southern Spain. by Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña, Antonio Escolar-Pujolar, Miguel San Sebastián, Per E Gustafsson

“…This study aimed to describe the trends in horizontal inequity in the use of health services in Andalusia, Spain, during the early years of the Great Recession, and the contribution of demographic, economic and social factors. …”
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Teach For America’s preferential treatment: School district contracts, hiring decisions, and employment practices by T. Jameson Brewer, Kerry Kretchmar, Beth Sondel, Sarah Ishmael, Megan Manfra

“…In the decades that followed, especially during and immediately following a nationwide onslaught of teacher layoffs instigated by the 2008 Great Recession, teaching shortages no longer exist in many of the districts TFA continues to place corps members. …”
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Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? by Mariña Fernández-Reino, Jonas Radl, María Ramos

“…One particular focus is to understand which minorities have been hit the hardest by the Great Recession. To this end, we use data from the European Union Labour Force Survey for the years 2008 and 2014, and more specifically the two ad-hoc modules on the labour market situation of migrants. …”
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Youth living arrangements and household employment deprivation: Evidence from Spain by Olga Cantó, Inmaculada Cebrián, Gloria Moreno

“…Results: Our results confirm that the Great Recession increased the probability of parental co-habitation, even if with some delay in relation to the business cycle. …”
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The Export Strategy and SMEs Employment Resilience During Slump Periods by Aparicio-Pérez Daniel, Calatayud Carolina, Rochina-Barrachina María E.

“…The Spanish economy was the most hit by the Great Recession. It suffered a greater decrease in the gross domestic product (GDP) (affecting especially internal demand). …”
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