This paper examines housing market responses to two outbreaks of respiratory diseases in Hong Kong during the Information Era—the 2003 SARS and COVID-19 outbreaks. The local housing market has withstood both epidemics, and correlated policy measures and collective responses to epidemic events...

This paper proposes a methodology to predict the increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city of New York at the zip code level. We concentrate on the initial period of the pandemic spanning from March 31 to June 16, 2020. To do this, we propose a Poisson regression model for...

This paper explores the relationship between Covid-19 infection rates, race, and type of work. We focus on three U.S. cities-Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia-allowing us to exploit zip code-level variation in infection rates and testing rates over time, while controlling for a variety of...

This paper examines the role of regional poverty on the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.A. It also verifies if the effects differ with the concentration of ethnic minorities. We find that poverty is a significant and consistent determinant of higher COVID-19 infections and fatalities. The prevalent...

We study the effects of firm-level exposure to an epidemic disease on corporate cash holdings amongst U.S firms. Using a text-based measure of firm-level exposure to epidemic diseases and difference-in-difference estimation strategy, we document a positive relationship between the onset of an...

In an attempt to foster debate on whether firms’ commitment to ESG policies affects stocks risk-adjusted performance, we analysed the blue-chips of the European countries most affected by COVID-19. We found statistical evidence that companies that follow high ESG standards outperformed low...

This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...

In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for collective action triggered by the corona virus pandemic. In the face of such a crisis, we argue that the joint procurement, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a...