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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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the proportion of time they worked relative to full-time workers prior to the pandemic. In addition, in contrast to the …
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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 …
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alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels …
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This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information …
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