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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To … public corruption to explain the significant cause of cross-country variation in immunization progress. We suggest that … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
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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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This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
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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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We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination … and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence based on macro data shows that a one-standard-deviation increase … in our new crisis experience index gives rise to around 10 additional administered vaccine doses per 100 citizens (around …
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) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of … epidemics have implications for economic policies in the current times of coronavirus. …
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We develop an epidemic model to explain and predict the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and to assess the economic … costs of lockdown scenarios. The standard epidemic three-variable model, SIR (Susceptible, Infected and Removed) is extended … epidemic results on hospital, morbidity and mortality together with macroeconomic impacts show that the total net benefits of …
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