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relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and …
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Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for ….0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
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Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with government regulations and lowers tax...
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Understanding demand for state regulation is a foundational issue for social science. To account for this demand, existing theories rooted in market failure and government failure have focused on various forms of trust, but have paid little attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape...
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influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard … forecasts and lead forecasters to overstate confidence in their predictions. They also provide social scientists with …
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Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and temporal variation in the initial spread of Covid-19...
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the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic. We find …
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, suggesting that the negative demand effects prevailed over the negative supply effects of the pandemic. On the other hand, Covid … offsetting countries’ own effects. The net effect of moving from the pre-pandemic situation to another where the main variables … significant heterogeneity. For example, the negative own effects of the pandemic vanish when we restrict the sample to medical …
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This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the … that the stock markets of the G7 are affected negatively by government restrictions more than the Covid-19 pandemic itself … policy measures play a more important role in the G7 countries whilst the Covid-19 pandemic itself is a key determinant in …
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Developments in trade finance in 2020 were largely driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve years after … pandemic-related crisis did not have a financial cause, one of its results has been that many countries are experiencing … structural trade finance gaps were high even before the pandemic. As the health crisis developed and persisted, banks experienced …
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