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Macroprudential Policies and the Covid-19 Pandemic : Risks and Challenges for Emerging Markets
Edwards, Sebastian - 2021
This paper deals with COVID and macroprudential regulations in emerging markets. I document the build-up of a sturdy macroprudential structure during 2009-2019, and the relaxation of regulations in 2020-2021, as part of the effort to deal with the sanitary emergency. I show that in every...
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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020
We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the …
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Covid-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows
Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020
We quantify the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 for emerging markets using a SIR-multisector-small open economy model and calibrating it to Turkey. Domestic infection rates feed into both sectoral supply and sectoral demand shocks. Sectoral demand shocks also incorporate lower external demand...
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Emerging Markets Sovereign CDS Spreads During Covid-19 : Economics Versus Epidemiology News
Daehler, Timo; Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2021
Can bad news about COVID-19 induce negative expectations on sovereign credit risks? We investigate the factors driving credit default swap (CDS) spreads of emerging market sovereigns around the outbreak of COVID-19. Using 2014-2019 data, we estimate a two-factor model of global and regional...
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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Providers in the Us
Chatterji, Pinka - 2020
There is growing concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may have severe, adverse effects on the health care sector, a sector of the economy that historically has been somewhat shielded from the business cycle. In this paper, we study one aspect of this issue by estimating the magnitude of the...
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Effect of a Federal Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Working and Staying at Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Cellular Device Data
Andersen, Martin - 2020
We study the effects of the temporary federal paid sick leave mandate that became effective April 1st, 2020 on ‘social distancing,' as proxied by individuals' physical mobility behavior gleaned from cellular devices. The national paid leave policy was implemented in response to the COVID-19...
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Covid-19 and the Welfare Effects of Reducing Contagion
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2020
I use a simple SIR model, augmented to include deaths, to elucidate how pandemic progression is affected by the control of contagion, and examine the key trade-offs that underlie policy design. I illustrate how the cost of reducing the "reproduction number" R0 depends on how it changes the...
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Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods
Chang, Roberto - 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this colossal shock. But in this debate it is seldom recognized that the health shock is not entirely exogenous. Its magnitude and dynamics themselves depend on economic policies, and...
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Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases : Covid-19, Sars, and H1n1
Hassan, Tarek Alexander - 2020
epidemic diseases raised in their quarterly earnings conference calls. We construct text-based measures of the costs, benefits …, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80 other countries associate with the spread of Covid-19 and other epidemic … diseases. We identify which firms and sectors expect to lose/gain from a given epidemic and which are most affected by the …
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Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict US stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate US market value of 4 to 11 percent,...
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