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How do pandemics end? : two decades of recurrent outbreak risk following the main waves
Schroeder, Max; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Mancy, Rebecca; … - 2021
the stochastic process of mortality rates after the main pandemic waves of two historical pandemics across multiple …
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The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 interventions : toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach
Dorn, Florian; Lange, Berit; Braml, Martin; Gstrein, David - 2022
and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics …
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
explain not only the spread of the disease, but also cross-country spillovers in perceptions about coronavirus risk and in … social distancing behavior. In the early phases of the pandemic, perceptions of coronavirus risk in most countries are … adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the …
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Pandemics and economic growth : evidence from the 1968 H3N2 influenza
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2020
We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates ….9%). Our main findings highlight the role of both negative demand-side and supply-side shocks in the flu pandemic’s aftermath. …
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Did COVID-19 cost Trump the election?
Lake, James; Nie, Jun - 2021
A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the pandemic helped Trump. However, we find substantial evidence that voters abandoned Trump in counties with large increases in health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act,...
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Measuring the economic risk of COVID-19
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020
, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of the epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts …
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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Covid-19 and capital flows : the responses of investors to the responses of governments
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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Explaining vaccine hesitancy : a Covid-19 study of the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022
Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...
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