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The Sooner, the Better : The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2020
The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Psacharopoulos, George - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834026
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Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Didier, Tatiana - 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834605
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The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade : A Preliminary Assessment
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2020
The virus that triggered a localized shock in China is now delivering a significant global shock. This study simulates the potential impact of COVID-19 on gross domestic product and trade, using a standard global computable general equilibrium model. It models the shock as underutilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837348
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Winners and Losers from COVID-19 : Global Evidence from Google Search
Abay, Kibrom A. - 2020
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with uncertainties about the epidemiology of the disease and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832318
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832606
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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
Akogun, Oladele B. - 2018
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932243
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Digital Platforms and the Demand for International Tourism Services
Lopez Cordova, Jose Ernesto - 2020
Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has … explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism …-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between international tourism and the adoption of digital technologies that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841603
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Connectivity for Caribbean Countries : An Initial Assessment
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia - 2017
to promote Caribbean tourism. This has led to suboptimal routing based on distorting subsidy schemes with often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972239