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We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this …
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(i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger sample of countries and greater variety of firms than existing … studies, with separate estimates by firm size, age, and sector, we show: a) backward spillovers (stemming from supplying a … foreign firm in the host country or exporting to a foreign firm) are consistently positive; b) horizontal spillovers are …
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and...
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of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers … from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on civil …
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Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...
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allocation of scarce vaccine doses. …
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We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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Background: Public health measures and private behaviour are based on reported numbers of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Some argue that testing influences the confirmed number of infections. Objectives/Methods: Do time series on reported infections and the number of tests allow one to draw conclusions...
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