The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global … effective vaccines. While many governments implemented lockdowns to counter the pandemic, others did not let the virus halt … economic activity. In this paper, we use a Bayesian Vector Autoregressive framework to study the effects of the pandemic on …

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade varies along several dimensions, including the type of … pandemic along another, previously unexplored dimension, the mode of transportation. Analyzing daily data from New Zealand, I … find that the value of seaborne exports and imports increases relative to shipments by air during pandemic lockdowns. While …

/falls short of a specific value. Calibrated to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the baseline model and a battery of robustness checks …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its mobility restrictions have been an external shock, influencing wellbeing. However, does … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … lockdown took effect. However, such effects are wiped out when a country exhibits high mortality ('pandemic category 5'). Hence …

Lockdowns imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have cross-border effects. In this paper, we estimate the empirical … first wave of the pandemic. Countries with a higher export share are particularly exposed to lockdown spillovers. …

. Our ndings have implications for the policy response to Covid-19 and suggest that the eventual death toll of the pandemic … may be understated if the impact of the coronavirus recession is neglected. …