Yusuke Kuroishi,Yasuyuki Sawada
Yusuke Kuroishi
We investigate the impacts of two disasters in Japan and the Philippines on preferences using the convex time budget experiments and multiple price list experiments with monetary rewards. By exploiting natural experiments which are combined...
Between lives and economy: COVID-19 containment policy in open economies [0.03%]
疫情管控政策的生计与经济权衡——基于开放经济体的视角
Wen-Tai Hsu,Hsuan-Chih Luke Lin,Han Yang
Wen-Tai Hsu
This paper studies containment policies for combating a pandemic in an open-economy context. It does so via quantitative analyses using a model that incorporates a standard epidemiological compartmental model in a general equilibrium multi-...
Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya [0.03%]
利用调查问题衡量偏好的方法：来自肯尼亚实验验证的启示
Michal Bauer,Julie Chytilová,Edward Miguel
Michal Bauer
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university...
Katharina Bergant,Kristin Forbes
Katharina Bergant
This paper uses the onset of COVID-19 to examine how countries construct their policy packages in response to a severe negative shock. We use several new datasets to track the use of a large variety of policy tools: announced fiscal stimulu...
How does the vaccine approval procedure affect COVID-19 vaccination intentions? [0.03%]
疫苗审批程序对新冠肺炎疫苗接种意愿的影响如何？
Silvia Angerer,Daniela Glätzle-Rützler,Philipp Lergetporer et al.
Silvia Angerer et al.
People's willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects trust in newly developed vaccines and consequently pub...
The Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19: A Novel Approach to Quantifying Financial Distress across Industries [0.03%]
新冠疫情的非对称影响——一种量化各行业财务困境的新方法
Elizaveta Archanskaia,Erik Canton,Alexandr Hobza et al.
Elizaveta Archanskaia et al.
This paper assesses corporate financial distress in terms of liquidity and risk of insolvency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We develop a novel multivariate approach to obtain monthly data on industry turnover, exploiting real time data to c...
Discussion of "The Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19: A Novel Approach to Quantifying Financial Distress across Industries" [0.03%]
“新冠肺炎影响的不对称性：一种新的行业量化金融困境的方法”一文的讨论
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis and the associated lockdown measures have exerted significantly adverse effects on corporate sectors globally. Archanskaia et al. (2023) provide a novel empirical strategy to timely assess corporate financial di...
Ulugbek Aminjonov,Olivier Bargain,Tanguy Bernard
Ulugbek Aminjonov
Stay-at-home orders feature high in the set of policies used to curb the spread of epidemics such as COVID-19, but are potentially less efficient among poor people who must continue to work during pandemics. We examine how income support pr...
Dario Cardamone,Eric Sims,Jing Cynthia Wu
Dario Cardamone
Monetary and fiscal authorities reacted swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic by purchasing assets (or "Wall Street QE") and lending directly to non-financial firms (or "Main Street Lending"). Our paper develops a new framework to compare and co...
Guido Ascari,Andrea Colciago,Riccardo Silvestrini
Guido Ascari
Asymmetric effects across sectors are the distinctive features of the Covid-19 shock. An Epidemiological-Industry Dynamic model with heterogeneous firms and endogenous firms dynamics mimics the deep recession suffered by sectors characteriz...