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Two main strategies, home and hotel isolation, have been used to isolate COVID-19 cases in most countries. Both have proven to be somewhat medically effective, but the costs to produce the desired outcome remain unclear. We used a decision tree model to compare alternatives and a simulation...
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We examine the financial performance of the forest products industry in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, employing data for publicly trading companies in the industry globally. We first examine the market investor reaction to the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health...
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The world has been severely challenged by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak since the early 2020s. Worldwide …
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In the context of the great turmoil in the financial markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the predictability of daily infectious diseases-related uncertainty (EMVID) for international stock markets volatilities is examined using heterogeneous autoregressive realised variance (HAR-RV) models....
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This study first analyzes the national and global infection status of the Coronavirus Disease that emerged in 2019 … assesses the impact of these results. This study argues that even if the risks and impacts of the epidemic are significant …
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The 2019 COVID-19 pandemic led to an economic slowdown worldwide and shook the investment world. Pharmaceutical investments were influenced by the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccine developments. Our study examines the real-time impact of public announcements concerning COVID-19 vaccine...
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A novel coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in China on 31 December 2019. The WHO named the … editorial evaluates risk management based on the Global Health Security (GHS) Index of global health security capabilities in … 195 countries. The GHS Index lists the countries best prepared for an epidemic or pandemic. COVID-19 is compared with two …
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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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Crude oil draws attention in recent research as its demand may indicate world economic growth trend in the post-COVID-19 era. In this paper, we study the dynamic lead-lag relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and crude oil future prices. We perform rolling-sample tests to evidence whether...
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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global …
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