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Diversion of tourism flows in the Asia & Pacific region : lessons for COVID-19 recovery
Balasundharam, Vybhavi; Koepke, Robin - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a collapse in international tourism, severely impacting the tourism-dependent economies … in the Asia and Pacific region. Once countries start reopening, tourism diversion effects could accelerate the recovery … of previous shocks in tourism competitor countries on visitor inflows, with a particular focus on tourism …
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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic
Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020
A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...
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Social repercussions of pandemics
Barrett, Philip; Chen, Sophia - 2021
Epidemics may have social scarring effects, increasing the likelihood of social unrest. They may also have mitigating effect, suppressing unrest by dissuading social activities. Using a new monthly panel on social unrest in 130 countries, we find a positive cross-sectional relationship between...
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Digitalization and resilience : firm-level evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abidi, Nordine; El Herradi, Mehdi; Sakha, Sahra - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shock to firms with adverse consequences for existing productive capacities. At the same time, digitalization has increasingly been touted as a key pathway for mitigating economic losses from the pandemic, and we expect firms facing digital...
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The effects of COVID-19 vaccines on economic activity
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021
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Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021
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A pandemic forecasting framework : an application of risk analysis
Dizioli, Allan Gloe; Greenwood, Daniel Rivera; … - 2021
explain the epidemic development in the UK, the USA and Brazil through the model lens. Moreover, we show how our model would …
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Initial output losses from the Covid-19 pandemic : robust determinants
Furceri, Davide; Ganslmeier, Michael; Ostry, Jonathan David - 2021
those with lower GDP per capita, more stringent containment measures, higher deaths per capita, higher tourism dependence …
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Will COVID-19 have long-lasting effects on inequality? : evidence from past pandemics
Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2021
This paper provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades on income distribution. The pandemics in our sample, even though much smaller in scale than COVID-19, have led to increases in the Gini coefficient, raised the income share of higher-income deciles, and...
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Will the economic impact of COVID-19 persist? : prognosis from 21st century pandemics
Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2021
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...
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