-quality products. I then use the access to online reviews to proxy for reductions in consumers’ search costs and estimate its impact on …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic. We find …

with endogenous dynamics for the pandemic. There are three main results. First, the macroeconomic effects of the epidemic …The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade …

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than three months … while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …

during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the … for the policy responses, both the containment and fiscal measures had a rather limited impact, whilst there were …

, 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 …

. The recursive analysis shows no impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the persistence of stock prices, whilst there is an …This paper analyses the possible effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of persistence of US monthly stock … pandemic period. We find that the unit root hypothesis cannot be rejected for stock prices while for bond yields the results …

This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the … activity in all countries in the early stages of the pandemic (especially in Italy), and a positive one on CDS at the same time … (with cross-country differences). Finally, the negative impact on stock markets was felt only initially and it had tapered …

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 …. By contrast, in the non-G7 countries both variables have a negative impact. Further, lockdowns during periods with …

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 …