Trade in seeds is key to guarantee access to food across the globe. COVID-19 led to concerns that seed supply chains would be disrupted and that countries relying on imported seed would not have sufficient supplies for the upcoming season. Focusing on the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective...

This paper explores whether agricultural commodities exhibited super-contango during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the spot price, basis, arithmetic spot price changes, logarithmic spot price changes and arithmetic basis changes of WTI crude, Class III...

This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in...

I study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formal employment of entrants from each post-Great Recession year. Using longitudinal Mexican social security records and an individual fixed-effects difference-in-differences design, I find that the pandemic caused more recent entrants from...

This study investigates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's preferences including social preference in terms of trust and trustworthiness, risk attitude, ambiguity attitude, and time preference. We compare the preferences of 5382 subjects in three sets of large-scale online...

One of the main sources of funding for economic recovery in countries after the COVID-19 pandemic is the increase in public debt. But as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strengthening of new trends in the development of the global economy, the level of uncertainty has greatly increased....

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by exploiting the variation among municipalities in the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by exploiting the variation among municipalities in the...

At the initial stage of the economic slowdown, companies should have clear understanding of the specifics of the emerging crisis in order to ensure that they quicker adapt to an absolutely new situation and suffer smaller losses, securing themselves an opportunity to restore their performance...

We examine the relationship between cryptocurrencies (namely Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP)) and COVID-19 cases/deaths. The Wavelet coherence analysis indicates that there is initially a negative relationship between Bitcoin and the number of reported cases and deaths; however,...