Consolo, Agostino; Petroulakis, Filippos - 2022
Recent research has argued that the COVID-19 shock has also brought about a reallocation shock. We examine the evidence …-section, or when broken down by firms’ size. We then examine whether mismatch unemployment has risen as a result of the pandemic … driving the elevated unemployment rate. Finally, we employ a novel Bayesian SVAR framework with sign restrictions to identify …