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Economic Activity and the Value of Medical Innovation During a Pandemic
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2020
. Employment already fell 28 million by early April 2020. These costs indicate, among other things, the value of innovation in both …
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Lockdowns and Innovation : Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Berkes, Enrico; Deschenes, Olivier; Gaetani, Ruben; … - 2021
Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225148
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
the central role of political and economic institutions, as well as the endogenous evolution of technology, in shaping the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039764
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of within and between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M. - 2010
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760169
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833111
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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020
We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833120
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833123
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Us Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
Ganong, Peter - 2020
We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and...
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Covid-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows
Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020
demand shocks also incorporate lower external demand due to foreign infection rates. Infection rates change endogenously with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833730
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Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics During Epidemic Outbreaks
Chaudhuri, Shomesh - 2020
path during such outbreaks. When the epidemic is more infectious and fatal, the Bayesian-optimal sample size in the … and the regulatory approval process to the specific parameters and stage of the epidemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833747