Maintaining economic output during COVID-19 pandemic can result in benefits for a firm's shareholders but comes at a potential cost to public health. Using novel retail store-level data, we examine how a CEO's political leanings, measured by political donations, impacts this tradeoff. We...

We examine how the introduction of COVID-19 vaccinations affects business activity and firm performance in the US. A ten percent increase in vaccination rates results in a 6.6 percent increase in establishment customer visits. Difference-in-Differences analysis shows that the effects are causal....