Die ersten Corona-Fälle in China sind im Dezember 2019 aufgetaucht. Um die Pandemie einzudämmen, musste die Regierung im Februar weitreichende Maßnahmen ergreifen. Diese Ma-nahmen haben zwar die Pandemie abgeschwächt, aber auch gleichzeitig dramatische Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaft gehabt....

Das erste Jahr der Corona-Pandemie stand in Deutschland im Zeichen extremer Schwankungen der ökonomischen Aktivität und einer massiven Lähmung der Binnenwirtschaft. Insgesamt dürfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt in diesem Jahr um 3,7% und im kommenden Jahr um 3,9% zunehmen. Die öffentlichen...

Do corporate financial decisions made by female executives differ from that of male executives? We try to answer the question by using firm-level data. We identify few critical differences between corporations run by gender-homogeneous versus gender-heterogeneous executive boards using a unique...

We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the US and UK before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business growth, and...

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a large and immediate decline in households’ aggregate spending and a surge in bank and postal deposits; although little is known about how this was distributed. This paper overcomes the lack of timely micro-data on households’ liquidity by looking at supervisory...

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus in the United States. The WEI, with its ten component series, tracks the overall economy. Comparing the contributions of...

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States. The WEI shows a strong and sudden decline in economic activity starting in the week ending March 21, 2020. In the most...

Die ersten Corona-Fälle in China sind im Dezember 2019 aufgetaucht. Um die Pandemie einzudämmen, musste die Regierung im Februar weitreichende Maßnahmen ergreifen. Diese Ma-nahmen haben zwar die Pandemie abgeschwächt, aber auch gleichzeitig dramatische Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaft gehabt....

This paper studies long economic series to assess the long-lasting effects of pandemics. We analyze if periods that cover pandemics have a change in trend and persistence in growth, and in level and persistence in unemployment. We find that there is an upward trend in the persistence level of...

We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the United States and the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business...