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We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage PH were accessed by both households with pre-existing...
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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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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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Voluntary and government-mandated lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have caused causing drastic reductions in economic activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home and foreign goods, and show that trading partners'...
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We quantify the effect of vaccinations on economic activity in the United States using weekly county level data covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county-level pharmacy density interacted with state-level vaccine...
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We study the macroeconomic effects of the COVID-19 epidemic in a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium setup with … play during the epidemic. According to our results, treating the observed output contraction as a standard recession leads … economy and containing the epidemic. If no administrative restrictions are in place, the second motive prevails and, despite …
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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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information campaigns - rather than stay-at-home requirements. Using past coronavirus outbreaks as an instrumental variable, we …
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