U.S. Economic Activity During the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak

Daniel Lewis, Karel Mertens, James H. Stock

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States. The WEI shows a strong and sudden decline in economic activity starting in the week ending March 21, 2020. In the most recent week ending March 28, the WEI indicates economic activity has fallen further to -6.19% scaled to 4 quarter growth in GDP

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Year of publication:	April 2020
Authors:	Lewis, Daniel
Other Persons:	Mertens, Karel (contributor) ; Stock, James H. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	USA \| United States \| Coronavirus \| Konjunktur \| Business cycle \| Epidemie \| Epidemic

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w26954
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w26954 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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