partner's economic support policies. Moreover, to the extent that public interventions to fight the pandemic affect financial …

We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our … approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the epidemic identical across regions. The procedure uncovers regional variation in …

Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable … experiment฀like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 … pandemic. While negative experiences with COVID-19 correlate negatively with giving, both approaches led us to conclude that …

Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable … experiment-like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 … pandemic. While negative experiences with COVID-19 correlate negatively with giving, both approaches led us to conclude that …

cushioned economic shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis (GFC). Findings suggest that the impacts … resilience during the GFC, countries with more centralised banking systems performed better in the first year of the pandemic …. Future studies of pandemic recovery paths will show if regional banks have lost their ability for countercyclical funding, or …