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An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic : The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário - 2020

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Pandemics and Economic Growth : Evidence from the 1968 H3N2 Influenza

Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2021

We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates … as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per …

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Pandemics, Places, and Populations : Evidence from the Black Death

Jedwab, Remi - 2019

more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …

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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity

Barro, Robert J. - 2020

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 …

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The 'Great Lockdown' : Inactive Workers and Mortality by COVID-19

Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2021

the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality … significant reduction in mortality by Covid-19 and, in particular, for age groups between 40-64 and older (with larger and more …

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COVID-19 Mortality and Contemporaneous Air Pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2021

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind …

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Working from Home in European Countries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufí, Montserrat - 2022

We use data from the EU Labour Force Survey for 8 countries and document the levels of working from home in the sample countries, industries, and occupations in the 2011-2019 period and its changes in 2020, the year when the COVID-19 pandemic started. We show that there are significant...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Flows : Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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The Impact of Containment Measures and Monetary and Fiscal Responses on US Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021

. The mortality rate, surprisingly, seems to have affected stock and bond prices positively with autocorrelated errors. As …

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