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State-level health and economic impact of COVID-19 in India
Deb, Pragyan; Xu, TengTeng - 2021
The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union …
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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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Corporate sector resilience in India in the wake of the COVID-19 shock
Górnicka, Lucyna; Ogawa, Sumiko; Xu, TengTeng - 2021
To assess the resilience of India's corporate sector against COVID-19-related shocks, we conducted a series of stress …
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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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The effect of containment measures on the COVID-19 pandemic
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2020
Countries have implemented several containment measures to halt the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease, but it … data on the number of coronavirus disease cases as well as on real-time containment measures implemented by countries …
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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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COVID-19 vaccines : a shot in arm for the economy
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021
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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Monetary policy and COVID-19
Brzoza-Brzezina, Michał; Kolasa, Marcin; Makarski, … - 2021
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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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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