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US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy … associated with social distancing. We find that lockdown measures are effective in alleviating disease severity, but yield …
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This study explores the contrasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries in Australia. Considering all daily announced information, we analyzed the diverse impacts of COVID-19 on the sectoral stock returns from 26 January to 20 July 2020. Sixteen out of twenty examined stock...
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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global … of the lockdown measures. However, the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus packages to counteract the effects of the …
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This article develops a detailed epidemiological multi-factor model, the K-susceptible-exposed-infected-removed (K-SEIR) model, and several simpler sub-models as its building blocks. The general model enables us to account for all the relevant COVID-19 features, its disparate impact on different...
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new hospital beds. The coronavirus pandemic created a surge in demand for medical services, which might be exacerbated in …
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This study examines the effect of the elderly population on SARS-CoV-2 Disease (COVID-19) mortality for a sample of 146 countries. It shows that the elderly population is robustly associated with higher COVID-19 mortality. This effect, however, decreases significantly in countries with higher...
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subject to comparison, and the differences between the samples were analyzed and commented on to verify the hypotheses …
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We examined volatility spillover effects from five prominent global stock markets to India's stock market during the pre-and-post COVID-19 outbreak using daily adjusted closing prices between January 2019 and September 2021 from six capital markets. The structural breakpoint was identified as 23...
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The aim of the presented article is to compare and evaluate the occurrence and level of marketability discount in developed and emerging markets in the example of the United States of America (USA) and Poland. According to the hypothesis put forward in the article, due to the smaller degree of...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated both the risk and volatility of energy companies. Can mass vaccinations restore stability within this sector? To answer this question, we investigate stock market data from fifty-eight countries from January 2020 to April 2021. We document that vaccination...
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