The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had profound effects on the global energy landscape, with some of the longer-lasting effects still unfolding. This paper discusses how these events have reshaped the supply side of the global oil market by focusing on...

The first stream of economic studies on public policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the stringency, the effectiveness, and the impact of the countries' interventions and paid rather little attention to the corresponding means used to support them. The present paper...

The authors of the article analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport in the world. Particular attention is paid to the experience of Great Britain, France, and India, where the restrictions associated with the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 have had a very negative...

The rapid spread of coronavirus infection in the world has led to the development of a global health crisis, overload of national health systems and serious economic consequences. A noticeable downside of measures to contain infection was, in particular, the cardinal restriction of transport...

This paper presents new high frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The dataset reveals a rapid...

We survey the literature in economics and related fields on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict behavior. We cover the effects of the pandemic on micro-level conflict (among individuals), macro-level conflict (interstate, intrastate, and extra-state), and the effect of...