Evenett, Simon; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020
This paper presents new high frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the … beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on … a week-by-week basis. The dataset reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020 in tandem …