Ana Babus,Sanmay Das,SangMok Lee
Ana Babus
We develop a simple model of vaccine prioritization for a potential pandemic. We illustrate how the model applies to the case of Covid-19, using an early 2020 primitive estimate of occupation-based exposure risks and age-based infection fat...
Scarcity nationalism during COVID-19: Identifying the impact on trade costs [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下的稀缺民族主义：贸易成本的影响分析
Peter H Egger,Gerard Masllorens,Nadia Rocha et al.
Peter H Egger et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used export and import policy as a tool to expand the availability of scarce critical medical products in the domestic market (scarcity nationalism). This paper assesses the direct and indirect (...
Max J Hyman,Ian Savage
Max J Hyman
To encourage social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Delta Air Lines did not sell the middle seat on its flights that had them. In the second half of 2020 its principal rivals, American Airlines and United Airlines, continued to sel...
Pierre Guérin,Felix Suntheim
Pierre Guérin
The shutdown in economic activity due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has resulted in a short-term decline in global carbon emissions, but the long-term impact of the pandemic on the transition to a low-carbon economy is uncert...
Alexander Chudik,Kamiar Mohaddes,Mehdi Raissi
Alexander Chudik
This paper uses a threshold-augmented Global VAR model to quantify the macroeconomic effects of countries' discretionary fiscal actions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its fallout. Our results are threefold: (1) fiscal policy is pl...
Gunes A Asik,Efsan Nas Ozen
Gunes A Asik
Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon threatening women irrespective of race, nationality, education or socio-economic status. Evidence shows that domestic violence help calls have been increasing in many countries during the Covid-1...
The role of housing market in the effectiveness of monetary policy over the Covid-19 era [0.03%]
住房市场在COVID-19时代货币政策有效性中的作用
Nicholas Apergis
Nicholas Apergis
The efficiency of monetary policy substantially depends on the phase of the housing cycle since house prices are important determinants of banks' willingness to lend. This paper presents evidence on 31 countries which shows that over the pa...
Jianbiao Li,Yanan Zhang,Xiaofei Niu
Jianbiao Li
We conduct an online experiment before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in China with four sampling waves and test the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on trust behavior. We find that COVID-19 pandemic reduces trust behavior. Belief i...
Can news help measure economic sentiment? An application in COVID-19 times [0.03%]
新闻有助于衡量经济情绪吗？一项关于COVID-19时期的应用研究
Pablo Aguilar,Corinna Ghirelli,Matías Pacce et al.
Pablo Aguilar et al.
We construct a new newspaper-based sentiment indicator for Spain that allows to monitor economic activity in real-time. As opposed to survey-based confidence indicators that are released at the end of the month, our indicator can be constru...
Joop Adema,Till Nikolka,Panu Poutvaara et al.
Joop Adema et al.
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a baseline before the pandemic, we find that sel...