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supply. The average GDP drop would have been - 30:2% in a world without trade in inputs and final goods. This is because …
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We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework …
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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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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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This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been …
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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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outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2 ….1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
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The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...
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zero or below everywhere in the world. Third: the cross section standard deviation of growth rates of daily deaths across … locations fell very rapidly in the first 10 days of the epidemic and has remained at a relatively low level since then. Fourth … levels and the effective reproduction number has hovered around one after the first 30 days of the epidemic virtually …
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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...
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