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Pandemic trade : Covid-19, remote work and global value chains

Espitia, Alvaro; Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, … - 2021

This paper studies the trade effects of Covid-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple trading partners from the beginning of the pandemic to June 2020. Regression results based on a sector-level gravity model show that the negative trade effects induced by...

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Crisis and protection in the automotive industry : a global value chain perspective

Sturgeon, Timothy J.; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2009

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Winners and losers from COVID-19 : global evidence from Google search

Abay, Kibrom A.; Tafere, Kibrom; Woldemichael, Andinet - 2020

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from …

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The interplay of policy, institutions, and culture in the time of Covid-19

Fang, Sheng; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yi, Yuanyuan - 2020

This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with preexisting vulnerabilities, the government's mobility restriction policy, institutions (democracy), and culture (individualistic culture and trust). Preexisting vulnerabilities...

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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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Small and medium enterprises in the pandemic : impact, responses and the role of development finance

Adian, Ikmal; Doumbia, Djeneba; Gregory, Neil F.; … - 2020

This study highlights how COVID-19 has affected small and medium enterprises, drawing on newly released World Bank …

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Do coronavirus containment measures work? : worldwide evidence

Blanco, Fernando; Emrullahu, Drilona; Soto, Raimundo - 2020

coronavirus containment measures in reducing contagion and death rates. To estimate the effectiveness of different containment … coronavirus containment measures and contagion/death rates, countries' idiosyncratic characteristics, and the endogeneity of the … containment measures. To obtain efficient estimates of the effect of coronavirus containment measures on contagion and death rates …

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Trade policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis : evidence from a new data set

Evenett, Simon J.; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020

This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...

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Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view

Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...

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COVID-19 mortality in rich and poor countries : a tale of two pandemics?

Schellekens, Philip; Sourrouille, Diego - 2020

applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …

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