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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 … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …
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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...
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How Do Supply Shocks to Inflation Generalize? Evidence from the Pandemic Era in Europe
Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm pricing power interacted to induce the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation through a cost-push channel and raised inflation...
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains
Steinbach, Sandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …
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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between …
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938701
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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?
Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...
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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
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Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy : A Dynamic Model
Velasco, Andrés; Chang, Roberto; Martinez, Humberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The advent of a pandemic is an exogenous shock, but the dynamics of contagion are very much endogenous --and depend on choices that individuals make in response to incentives. In such an episode, economic policy can make a difference not just by alleviating economic losses but also via...
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Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Clemens, Jeffrey; Ippolito, Benedic N.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health spending needs and the role of the Medicaid program. We arrive at three conclusions. First, we find that nationwide, and over the entirety of the federal budget window, the enhanced...
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