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COVID-19 Impact and Mitigation Policies : A Didactic Epidemiological-Macroeconomic Model Approach
Ansah, John P.; Epstein, Natan P.; Nalban, Valeriu - 2021
We develop an integrated epidemiological-macroeconomic model to analyze the interplay between the COVID-19 outbreak and economic activity, as a tool for capacity building purposes. We illustrate a workhorse framework that combines a rich epidemiological model with an economic block to shed light...
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Dirty Dance : Tourism and Environment
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global … countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute substantial share of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This study … empirically investigates the impact of tourism on CO2 emissions in a relatively homogenous panel of 15 Caribbean countries over …
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Global Corporate Stress Tests - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses
Tressel, Thierry; Ding, Xiaodan - 2022
Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305627
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Will the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Persist? Prognosis from 21st Century Pandemics
Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2022
COVID-19 has had a disruptive economic impact in 2020, but how long its impact will persist remains unclear. We offer a prognosis based on an analysis of the effects of five previous major epidemics in this century. We find that these pandemics led to significant and persistent reductions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305664
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Quasi-Fiscal Implications of Central Bank Crisis Interventions
Hooley, John; Khan, Ashraf; Lattie, Claney; Mak, Istvan; … - 2023
We develop a stylized balance sheet framework to help identify ‘quasi-fiscal’ components of central bank crisis interventions and show how sources of fiscal risk are created from both the new claims and how they are funded. Combining central bank balance sheet data with survey evidence from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354111
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Perfect Storm : Climate Change and Tourism
Cevik, Serhan; Ghazanchyan, Manuk - 2021
While the world's attention is on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a greater existential … threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive sector like tourism. Using a novel … multidimensional index, this study investigates the long-term impact of climate change vulnerability on international tourism in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252040
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Pandemic and Progressivity
Klemm, Alexander; Mauro, Paolo - 2021
Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who has, favor a temporary progressive levy or structural progressive tax reform to a greater extent than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243061
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Corporate Vulnerabilities in Vietnam and Implications of COVID-19
Kroeger, Thilo; Nguyen, Anh Thi Ngoc; Zhang, Y. Sophia; … - 2021
The paper uses firm-level data to assess the financial health of the Vietnamese non-financial corporate sector on the eve of pandemic. Our analysis finds that smaller domestic firms were particularly vulnerable even by regional comparison. A sensitivity analysis suggests that the COVID-19 shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249409
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Tourism in Belize : Ensuring Sustained Growth
Chow, Julian T.S. - 2020
Belize's tourism sector has witnessed impressive growth in recent years with overnight tourist arrivals registering … double digit annual growth rates since 2016. To guide the development of the tourism sector from 2012 to 2030, the government … endorsed a National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan in 2011, setting various initiatives and targets for the immediate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843508
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How Effective Were Job-Retention Schemes During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Microsimulation Approach for European Countries
Lam, W. Raphael; Solovyeva, Alexandra - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic had posed a dramatic impact on labor markets across Europe. Forceful fiscal responses have prevented an otherwise sharper contraction. Many countries introduced or expanded job-retention schemes to preserve jobs and support households. This paper uses a microsimulation...
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