crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate that people’s lives are mainly affected in two ways: First, a notable …. Second, many people suffer from socio-economic consequences of the crisis, including a discontinuation of employment, a …

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points at the beginning of the pandemic. Using recent advancements in the … difference-in-differences approach with a continuous treatment, we find that pre-crisis digital capital potential reduced short …

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich … organized in a series of stylized facts, which suggest that although the pandemic had an immediate adverse impact on most firms … globally engaged firms is their heightened response to the crisis by finding novel ways to adapt supply chains even in the …

We investigate how preferences have been affected by exposure to the COVID-19 crisis. Our main contributions are: first … effects of the crisis, we also analyze within each wave during the crisis, how differential exposure to the crisis in the … health and financial domain affects preferences. We find that preferences remain remarkably stable during the crisis …

the proportion of time they worked relative to full-time workers prior to the pandemic. In addition, in contrast to the …

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months … message is that there is no “health vs. economics” dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis …

alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels …