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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
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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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023
How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction...
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A survey of hedge and safe havens assets against G-7 stock markets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ozdemir, Huseyin; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2021
We propose a new Sharpe ratio index obtained from return and volatility spillover indices to individual assets from the whole financial system. We use our new approach to shed light on a new perspective on a hot topic examining the safe-haven assets after Covid-19. To do that, we compare both...
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Economics and epidemics: evidence from an estimated spatial Econ-SIR model
Bognanni, Mark; Hanley, Douglas; Kolliner, Daniel; … - 2020
an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model using new U.S. county-level data on health, mobility, employment …
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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The …
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How does the economic uncertainty affect asset prices under normal and financial distress times?
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2022
By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....
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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify …
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The unequal impact of the COVID pandemic : theory and evidence on health and economic outcomes for different income groups
Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two …This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … status and capacity to access quality healthcare. Poorer individuals, who face budget constraints, have a higher risk of …
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