This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been … influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 43 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 39 million, 2 ….0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic. We find …

relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and …

, 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 …

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 …

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 …

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there …

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …

The risk of recurrent outbreaks following the main waves of a pandemic has been acknowledged. We provide evidence of … the stochastic process of mortality rates after the main pandemic waves of two historical pandemics across multiple … locations. For the 1890-91 influenza pandemic in England and Wales, as well as the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the US and …