the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical …

pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others’ beliefs … about the appropriateness of the government’s or the general public’s reaction to the pandemic. The first treatment is …

contacts drastically in the beginning, to almost eradicate the epidemic, and keeps them at around a third of pre-pandemic … survey data on social distancing and impure altruism from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The optimal policy reduces … epidemic in the laissez faire, though at a prevalence of infections much higher than optimal. Impure altruistic behaviour …

I use daily data from fifty major cities to investigate the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing market in … pandemic. The only exception is the closure of non-essential businesses at certain states, which is associated with up to a 9 …

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 …

We study the economic effects of information technology (IT) adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on IT … from the impact of the pandemic. In areas where firms adopted more IT the unemployment rate rose less in response to social … distancing. Our estimates imply that if the pandemic had hit the world 5 years ago, the resulting unemployment rate would have …