Corona in Emerging Markets: How are firms coping?
Onderzoek on\der beursgenoteerde bedrijven wijst uit dat ze allen last hebben van de Corona-crisis. Een overzicht van hun wijze van reageren.
Survey responses from early April across nearly 500 listed firms in ten emerging markets reveal that the vast majority of firms have been negatively affected by COVID-19 and reacted by reducing investment rather than payrolls. Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School) talks to Tim Phillips about “COVID-19 in emerging markets: firm-survey evidence”, from Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers 38, July .
Publicatie 10 augustus
Thorsten Beck is Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School in London. He is also (Co)-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. He was Professor of Economics and founding Chair of the European Banking Center at Tilburg University from 2008 to 2013. Previously he worked in the research department of the World Bank and has also worked as a Consultant for – among others – the ECB, EIB, IMF, the European Commission, ADB, and the German Development Corporation.
His research and policy work has focused on international banking and corporate finance and has been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Economic Growth. His research and policy work has focused on Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He is also Research Fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a Fellow in CESifo. He studied at Tübingen University, Universidad de Costa Rica, University of Kansas and University of Virginia.
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