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 …

the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic. We find …

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 …

of the Great Influenza Pandemic, September 1918-February 1919. Â The NPIs were in three categories: school closings … small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …

responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections … during the first year of the pandemic suggest that “lockdown style” policies were more stringent the further away countries … of countries that did not experience political elections in the first year of the pandemic confirm the validity of the …

the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two …

the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical … infections per one hundred thousand inhabitants per week. The effect was concentrated among the elderly, whose mortality risk …

unique “natural experiment” induced by restrictions due to the Corona pandemic: so-called ghost games in the top three German …

expectations adapt to an exogenous shock: the introduction of soccer ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that betting …

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 …