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Debt and Financial Fragility: Italian Non-Financial Companies after the Pandemic (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fattouh, B., Pisicoli, B., & Scaramozzino, P. Debt and Financial Fragility: Italian Non-Financial Companies after the Pandemic. Rome

This paper analyses the evolution of debt of Italian firms from 2010 to 2020 with special focus on the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. By means of quantile regressions, our approach investigates several heterogeneities to assess the vulnerabilit... Read More about Debt and Financial Fragility: Italian Non-Financial Companies after the Pandemic.

Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy (2023)
Thesis
Al-Thani, N. G. A. Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

For much of the last century, the resource curse theory has been used to explain the volatile and unproductive economic performance of resource-abundant states. By highlighting the negative institutional, political, and economic externalities associa... Read More about Challenging the Resource Curse Narrative: The Case of Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and Education Strategy.