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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 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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Lockdown Policies : A Macrodynamic Perspective for COVID-19
Busato, Francesco - 2020
with endogenous dynamics for the pandemic. There are three main results. First, the macroeconomic effects of the epidemic …
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Lockdown 101 : Managing Economic Lockdowns in an Epidemic
Ornelas, Emanuel - 2020
while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …
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The Impact of Containment Measures and Monetary and Fiscal Responses on US Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
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The Trade Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Degree of Persistence of US Stock Prices and Bond Yields
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2021
This paper analyses the possible effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of persistence of US monthly stock prices and bond yields using fractional integration techniques. The model is estimated first over the period January 1966-December 2020 and then a recursive approach is taken to...
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stock Markets, CDS and Economic Activity : Time-Varying Evidence from the US and Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Catik, Abdurrahman Nazif; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Policy Responses and Stock Markets in the G20
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2021
This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the G20 countries. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, which typically focuses only on either Covid-19 deaths or lockdown policies, our analysis is based on a...
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Trade Finance, Gaps and the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Review of Events and Policy Responses to Date
Auboin, Marc - 2021
Developments in trade finance in 2020 were largely driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve years after the great financial crisis of 2008-09, the issue of trade finance reemerged as a matter of urgency. While the current pandemic-related crisis did not have a financial cause, one...
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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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