growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

results to explain the big shift to WFH and to consider some implications for workers, organization, cities, and the pace of …

crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate that people’s lives are mainly affected in two ways: First, a notable …. Second, many people suffer from socio-economic consequences of the crisis, including a discontinuation of employment, a …

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich … globally engaged firms is their heightened response to the crisis by finding novel ways to adapt supply chains even in the …

We investigate how preferences have been affected by exposure to the COVID-19 crisis. Our main contributions are: first … effects of the crisis, we also analyze within each wave during the crisis, how differential exposure to the crisis in the … health and financial domain affects preferences. We find that preferences remain remarkably stable during the crisis …

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … difference-in-differences approach with a continuous treatment, we find that pre-crisis digital capital potential reduced short …

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple …-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 … local jurisdictions on average. The vast majority of these cities are characterized by a central municipality that strongly …