This study explores the contrasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries in Australia. Considering all daily announced information, we analyzed the diverse impacts of COVID-19 on the sectoral stock returns from 26 January to 20 July 2020. Sixteen out of twenty examined stock...

Chapter 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Globally-shared Experience: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pandemic Economics: Essential Features and Outstanding Questions -- Chapter 3. Pandemic Analysis I: Global Governance for a Global Pandemic? -- Chapter 4. Pandemic Analysis II: Governmental Actions...

Contents: Introduction / Philip McCann and Tim Vorley -- 1 The Covid-19 shock: the UK national and regional implications in the light of international evidence / Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés -- 2 Frontier and 'laggard' firms: will there be significant changes to the distribution of...

"Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The...

This book analyzes the impact of Covid-19 in different areas such as corporate social responsibility and legislation in SMEs, insolvency law, behavioral finance, government interventions in markets, financial disclosure, the emergence of unregulated financial sectors, the increase of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a global health and economic crisis. The entire world has faced a trade-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We set up and simulate a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium...

We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...