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Stock Returns under the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from China

Zhou, Wenyu; Zhou, Yujun; Zaremba, Adam; Long, Huaigang - 2023

We investigate the impacts of new COVID-19 infections on stock returns within China’s unique zero-COVID policy framework. We document a remarkable negative pattern: a COVID-19 outbreak within a city adversely affects the performance of local firms in a nonlinear fashion. This effect...

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Pandemic or panic? : a firm-level study on the psychological and industrial impacts of COVID-19 on the Chinese stock market

Wang, Qiuyun; Liu, Lu - In: Financial innovation : FIN 8 (2022), pp. 1-38

This study presents a thorough investigation of the relationship between the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and …

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"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall" : Health Perception Biases and Mental Health Among Chinese Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2022

The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...

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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities

Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...

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Bank Funding Costs During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from China

Gao, Haoyu; Li, Jinxuan; Wen, Huiyu - 2022

This paper investigates whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects bank funding costs in China. We find a significantly positive relationship between the offering yields of negotiable certificates of deposit and banks’ pandemic exposure. The surge in bank funding costs is alleviated by...

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Pandemics and Intergenerational Mobility of Education : Evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic in China

Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021

This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross …-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases … leads to a 9.3 percent increase in the maternal intergeneration transmission coefficient. The effect of the SARS epidemic is …

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Analyzing the Effects of the Government Interventions Against the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Jie, Liu; Gao, Boya; Bao, Helen X. H.; Shi, Zhenwu - 2021

Introduction: During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government interventions used to contain the outbreak in China are effective. However, the effects of different interventions and their combinations can’t be directly observed and are currently understood only through...

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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic

Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021

This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...

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Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Qiu, Yun; Chen, Xi; Shi, Wei - 2020 - [revised]

This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in Chinabetween January 19 and …

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Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Qiu, Yun; Chen, Xi; Shi, Wei - 2020

This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and …

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