Camehl, Annika; Rieth, Malte - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 15 (2023) 4, pp. 217-248
We study the dynamic interaction between COVID-19, economic mobility, and containment policy. We use Bayesian panel structural vector autoregressions with daily data for 44 countries, identified through traditional and narrative sign restrictions. We find that incidence shocks and containment...