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Brexit & COVID-19 Death Rates
Phalippou, Ludovic; Wu, Betty H.T - 2021
We uncover a striking relationship between the 2016 Brexit vote and COVID-19 death, infection, and vaccination rates in England. Districts that voted most heavily in favor of remaining in the European Union (top quintile) have a one-third lower death rate, a quarter lower infection rate, and a...
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"Ask not what your country can do for you" : legacies of the Great Recession and the consequences of the "trust crisis"
Aghajanian, Alia; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Egger, Eva-Maria; … - 2023
This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that increases in individualism and mistrust towards institutions caused by...
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
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Can a supranational medicines agency restore trust after vaccine suspensions? : the case of Vaxzevria
Albanese, Andrea; Fallucchi, Francesco; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of...
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Can a supranational medicines agency restore trust after vaccine suspensions? : the case of Vaxzevria
Albanese, Andrea; Fallucchi, Francesco; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589862
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Euro Area Business Confidence and COVID-19
Ambrocio, Gene - 2021
I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact … on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as … well as average household confidence in neighboring countries. I find evidence suggesting that the confidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239931
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Euro area business confidence and Covid-19
Ambrocio, Gene - 2021
I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact … on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as … well as average household confidence in neighboring countries. I find evidence suggesting that the confidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485432
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Institutional trust in the time of corona : evidence from countermeasures in Germany
Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Baliki, Ghassan; … - 2024
We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' trust in formal institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show that, on average, there is a pronounced negative...
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Korean Economy and Industry : An Interim Assessment of One Year after the Outbreak
kang, duyong; Min, Seong-hwan; Park, Sung Keun - 2022
COVID-19 was first reported in China in December 2019 and has since rapidly spread worldwide. It was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. In Korea, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was on January 20, 2020. Thus, 2020 was a year that the Korean economy spent entirely under the shock...
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Socio-economic attitudes in the era of social distancing and lockdowns
Arin, Kerim Peren; Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; … - 2021
We examine the impact of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide movement restrictions on socio-economic attitudes in four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom). We conducted large-scale surveys while the pandemic rapidly spread before and after...
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