Baqaee, David; Farhi, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Covid-19 crisis is an unusual and seemingly all-encompassing economic shock. On the one hand, it was unquestionably … a negative demand shock that, for fixed prices and incomes, reduced household spending. On the other hand, it was also … unquestionably a negative supply shock that reduced firms' ability to maintain production at pre-pandemic prices and quantities …