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China's industrial policies ("Five-Year Plans") displace U.S. production/employment and heighten plant closures in the same industries as those targeted by the policies in China. The impact was not anticipated by the stock market, but U.S. companies in the "treated industries" suffer a valuation...
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In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance … activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the liquidity of lenders, especially those with …
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What are the effects of a temporary lockdown of the economy? Do firms' deteriorating balance sheets and labor market frictions propagate and prolong the effects? We answer these questions in a model with financial and labor market frictions. The model makes quantitative predictions about the...
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distribution of business revenue shock due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We rely on it to analyze the impact of business support …
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shock caused by lockdowns, the idiosyncratic demand shock suffered by sectors that rely on high contact with their costumers …
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supply shocks are possible, under some conditions. A 50% shock that hits all sectors is not the same as a 100% shock that …
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calibrated by the cost of March 2020 Coronavirus relief packages, the shock is forecast to lead to a cumulative loss in … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …
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We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …
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This paper investigates how shocks to expected cash flows influence CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting changes in compliance with environmental regulations as shocks to expected future cash flows, we find that adverse shocks typically prompt corporate boards to recalibrate CEO compensation...
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