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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

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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Fear, trust and demand for regulation : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Russia

Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2022

Understanding demand for state regulation is a foundational issue for social science. To account for this demand … attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is …

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?

Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...

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Search and reallocation in the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Comunello, Camila; Clymo, Alex; … - 2022

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupation and industrial sectors. Using novel data on job search, we document how individuals adjust their job search behaviour in response to changing employment patterns across occupations and...

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Cryptocurrencies, technology stocks, Covid-19 and US policy responses: a fractional integration analysis

Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2022

This paper assesses the impact of US policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on various cryptocurrencies and also technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in the case of nine major coins (Bitcoin - BITC,...

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures. Our estimates use administrative microdata and a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effects of marginal changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage...

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Health system trust and compliance with COVID-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...

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Health system trust and compliance with Covid-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023

This study uses the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data, the only cross-national data having measured educational achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate educational achievement decline of fourth graders across 21 European countries between 2016 and...

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