Daisuke Miyakawa,Koki Oikawa,Kozo Ueda
Daisuke Miyakawa
Firms have exited the market since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. To evaluate the number of firms exiting the market and their exit rate, we construct a simple model, in which firms optimally choose stopping time for their exit. We est...
Masahiko Shibamoto,Shoka Hayaki,Yoshitaka Ogisu
Masahiko Shibamoto
Given that real-world infection-spread scenarios pose many uncertainties, and predictions and simulations may differ from reality, this study explores factors essential for more realistically describing an infection situation. It furnishes ...
How does the impact of the COVID-19 state of emergency change? An analysis of preventive behaviors and mental health using panel data in Japan [0.03%]
日本新冠疫情紧急状态的影响如何变化？利用面板数据研究预防行为和心理健康的问题
Eiji Yamamura,Yoshiro Tsutsui
Eiji Yamamura
This study applies the difference-in-difference method on panel data collected from internet surveys to investigate changes in the preventive behaviors and mental health of individuals as influenced by the COVID-19 state of emergency declar...
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor markets: People's movement and non-pharmaceutical interventions [0.03%]
COVID-19对劳动力市场的异质影响：人们的活动和非药物干预措施
Kisho Hoshi,Hiroyuki Kasahara,Ryo Makioka et al.
Kisho Hoshi et al.
The paper investigates the heterogeneous effect of a policy-induced decline in people's mobility on the Japanese labor market outcome during the early COVID-19 period. Regressing individual-level labor market outcomes on prefecture-level mo...
Eugenio Cerutti,Carolina Osorio-Buitron
Eugenio Cerutti
This paper analyzes the drivers of cross-border bank lending to 49 Emerging Markets (EMs) during the period 1990Q1-2014Q4, by assessing the impact of monetary, financial and real sector shocks in both the US and the euro area. The literatur...
R J Barro,X Sala-i-martin
R J Barro
"Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This...economic question...is analyzed in this paper using two regional data sets: 47 prefectures in Japan and 48 states of the United States. We find clear evidence of convergence in both coun...