The long-run effects of pandemics on inflation: Will this time be different? [0.03%]
大流行对通胀的长期影响：这次会不同吗？
Dennis Bonam,Andra Smădu
Dennis Bonam
We find that past major pandemics have led to a significant decline in trend inflation in Europe that lasts for more than a decade. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on trend inflation could, however, be different this time around. ...
Monthly suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Japan [0.03%]
COVID-19大流行期间的每月自杀率：来自日本的证据
Gerardo Ruiz Sánchez
Gerardo Ruiz Sánchez
This paper uses 2018-2020 prefecture-month-year, gender-month-year, and age group-month-year level data on suicide rates in Japan to document how suicide rates are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use a monthly event study design to...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the demand for density: Evidence from the U.S. housing market [0.03%]
COVID-19大流行对密度需求的影响：来自美国住房市场的证据
Sitian Liu,Yichen Su
Sitian Liu
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the location demand for housing. We find that the pandemic has led to a shift in housing demand away from neighborhoods with high population density. The reduced demand for density is driven p...
Kindness is rewarded! The impact of corporate social responsibility on Chinese market reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
善意有回报：企业社会责任对中国股市新冠肺炎疫情冲击的缓释作用
Yuyang Yi,Zongyi Zhang,Youliang Yan
Yuyang Yi
This study takes the COVID-19 outbreak as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance can help firms mitigate drops in their share prices. The results show that CSR ratings are positiv...
The importance of Social Norms against Strategic Effects: The case of Covid-19 vaccine uptake [0.03%]
社会规范在遏制新冠疫苗接种的战略效应中的重要性：来自中国的证据
Marina Agranov,Matt Elliott,Pietro Ortoleva
Marina Agranov
We study how individual decisions are affected by those of other members of the society. We use the vaccine against COVID-19 as a case study and empirically estimate the magnitude of three key forces: Herding, Social Norms, and Free-riding....
Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization [0.03%]
可加分离与递减排队规模的变人口社会福利函数：一项特征分析
Dean Spears,H Orri Stefánsson
Dean Spears
Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CLGU) and rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism, which w...
Alejandro Buesa,Javier J Pérez,Daniel Santabárbara
Alejandro Buesa
Awareness about the occurrence of viral infectious (or other) tail risks can influence their socioeconomic inter-temporal impacts. In this regard, a branch of the literature finds that personal experiences with significant shocks can have l...
Pandemic and hospital avoidance: Evidence from the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的医院就诊回避行为——以2015年韩国中东呼吸系统综合征疫情为例
Hyunkuk Cho,Jihyeon Kwon
Hyunkuk Cho
Existing literature shows that people exhibit disease avoidance behaviors in response to contagious disease outbreaks. We examine hospital avoidance behaviors during the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea. ...
COVID-19 and women's health: Examining changes in mental health and fertility [0.03%]
新冠肺炎与妇女健康：考察心理健康和生育力的变化
Adan Silverio-Murillo,Lauren Hoehn-Velasco,Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar et al.
Adan Silverio-Murillo et al.
Researchers have speculated that the economic and social consequences of COVID19 will harm women's health. This paper tests this claim in the immediate aftermath of Mexico City's COVID-19 stay-at-home order using call-center data. We use an...
Gokhan Karabulut,Klaus F Zimmermann,Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin et al.
Gokhan Karabulut et al.
More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to pr...