This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with … pollution) increase the spread of the pandemic and/or the mortality rate. On average, the government policy delay in mobility … pandemic mortality. Individualistic culture and general trust amplify the positive links between pandemic mortality and the …

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … June 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional …

, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll remains highly concentrated in high-income countries. Developing … countries represent 85 percent of the global population, but only 21 percent of the pandemic's death toll. This unusual … documents the observed inequality with a new indicator that expresses severity relative to pre-pandemic patterns. It argues that …

differences in population age structure. In this paper, COVID-19 mortality rates are calculated for each age group by dividing the … number of COVID-19 deaths by the underlying population. The resulting age-mortality curves are flatter in countries with … lower incomes. In HICs, the COVID-19 mortality rate for those ages 70-79 is 12.6 times the rate for those ages 50-59. In …

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 …

the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with … a span of three months, the pandemic has resulted in a 63 percent reduction in demand for hotels, while increasing … of the changes in demand varies considerably with government responses to the pandemic …

The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non … over the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis relies on high-frequency proxies, such as daily electricity … consumption, nitrogen dioxide emission, and mobility records, to trace the economic disruptions caused by the pandemic, and …

pandemic and provides evidence on the effects of different reopening trajectories and their timing and speed on economic … compared with the countries that rushed into lifting the restrictive measures before the pandemic was under control. Postponing … lifting the restrictions until after the pandemic's peak was reached has a positive impact on economic activity. Governance …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward … pandemic, while using credit to remain alive until the crisis subdues. Fourth, the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure … is ill-equipped to deal with an exogenous systemic shock such as this pandemic. Financial sector policies can help …