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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany
Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024
Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...
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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 …
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Network Based Evidence of the Financial Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
Ahelegbey, Daniel Felix; Cerchiello, Paola; … - 2021
How much the largest worldwide companies, belonging to different sectors of the economy, are suffering from the pandemic? Are economic relations among them changing? In this paper, we address such issues by analysing the top 50 S\&P companies by means of market and textual data. Our work...
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Policy Effectiveness on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Unemployment Outcomes : A Large Mixed Frequency Spatial Approach
Han, Xiaoyi; Zhu, Yanli; Zhang, Yijiong; Chen, Ying - 2022
We measure the effectiveness of policies in a mixed frequency spatial VAR (MF-SVAR) modeling framework, conditional on the spillover and diffusion effects of the global pandemic and unemployment. Specifically, we examine two aspects of policy effectiveness from a spatio-temporal perspective,...
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Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence from Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns
Krekel, Christian - 2020
Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823293
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824831
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Weather, Mobility and the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ghirelli, Corinna; González-Piñero, Andrea; Herrera, … - 2021
We estimate the effective reproduction number (Rt) of the current Covid-19 pandemic, with US daily infections data between February and September of 2020, at the county level. This is then used to estimate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the pandemic. We find a strong and...
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Modelling the Global Prevalence of COVID-19 : An Econometric Approach
Adekunle, Wasiu; Oyolola, Feyisayo; AbdulHameed, AbdulBasit - 2021
The global economies were caught up unawares with the sudden outbreak and rapid spread of coronavirus pandemic from … Wuhan City of China to the rest of the world. A number of studies have been conducted to investigate the drivers of the … the spread of the pandemic across four continents of the world including Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Across the four …
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COVID-19 Impact and Mitigation Policies : A Didactic Epidemiological-Macroeconomic Model Approach
Ansah, John P.; Epstein, Natan P.; Nalban, Valeriu - 2021
We develop an integrated epidemiological-macroeconomic model to analyze the interplay between the COVID-19 outbreak and economic activity, as a tool for capacity building purposes. We illustrate a workhorse framework that combines a rich epidemiological model with an economic block to shed light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252049
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829235