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The effects of COVID-19 vaccines on economic activity
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796628
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Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796638
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COVID-19 vaccines : a shot in arm for the economy
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021
covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county …. Specifically, an increase of initiated vaccination rates of 1 percentage point increases weekly consumer spending by 0.6 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795132
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A pandemic forecasting framework : an application of risk analysis
Dizioli, Allan Gloe; Greenwood, Daniel Rivera; … - 2021
have predicted that a super infectious variant, such as the delta, would spread and argue that current vaccination levels …
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Mask mandates save lives
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021
We quantify the effect of mask mandates in the United States. Our regression discontinuity design exploits county-level variation in COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths across the border between states with and without mandates. We find a significant and substantial effect-mask...
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?
Heller, Peter S. - 2007
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400229
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The Long-Run Effects of Tradeon Income and Income Growth
Brunner, Allan D. - 2003
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between trade and income. While most economists agree that increased trade … leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate … of the economy. Using a dynamic panel data model, the hypotheses of no long-run effects of trade on income and on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404012
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Implications of Migrationon Income and Welfare of Nationals
Ueda, Kenichi - 2002
As labor has become more mobile in today''s world, it is important to understand the income and welfare of nationals … migration, and calculates them using New Zealand data. Growth performance measured by New Zealanders'' income has been clearly …
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Who doesn't want to be vaccinated? : determinants of vaccine hesitancy during COVID-19
Dabla-Norris, Era; Khan, Hibah; Lima, Frederico; … - 2021
Quick vaccine rollouts are crucial for a strong economic recovery, but vaccine hesitancy could prolong the pandemic and the need for social distancing and lockdowns. We use individual-level data from nationally representative surveys developed by YouGov and Imperial College London to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613484
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Capital markets, COVID-19 and policy measures
ElFayoumi, Khalid; Hengge, Martina - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses triggered a historically large wave of capital reallocation between markets and asset classes. Using high-frequency country-level data, this paper examines if and how the number of COVID cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518278