We examine the relation between financial technologies (Fintech) and countries’ economic resilience from COVID-19 around the world. Measuring the demand for Fintech services using Google search volumes of high-frequent Fintech-related phrases, we document that developing countries and those...

We identify 19 predetermined country-level factors significantly related to weekly COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across 109 countries between January and the end of 2020. Aggravating factors, which increase infections and deaths, include population, the median age of the population, the...