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vaccination and the movements. These findings are consistent with panel regression results. Specifically, we find that the … systemic COVID-19 shock in the US stock market is alleviated by an increase in the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses … policy influences the stock market volatility significantly more than the vaccination, regardless of firm size and industry …
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A nascent recovery is underway in Thailand following the COVID-19 downturn. Ample policy buffers, underpinned by judicious management of public finances, allowed the authorities to implement a multipronged package of fiscal, monetary, and financial policies to mitigate the COVID-19 impact on...
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The very low interest rates and inflation rates of recent years has generated renewed interest in alternative policies that would not leave central banks trapped by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Amongst this debate, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility...
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Armenia has commenced a robust recovery from the deep 2020 recession, benefiting from strong policies and the lifting of the political uncertainty after the elections in June. A gradual but uneven improvement in the pandemic situation, pent-up demand, and the strengthening of public and private...
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In this essay, we examine and critique current proposals to offer monetary incentives for vaccination against COVID-19 … and public health value of COVID-19 vaccination. Moreover, they tap into existing socioeconomic and racial disparities …
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Policies offering material incentives for Covid-19 vaccination have been widely used around the world as countries … such interventions on vaccination willingness. We provide the first Covid-19 vaccine study to separately consider and … vaccination willingness than simply offering vaccines for free. The effects of money and gifts of equivalent value do not …
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"Big G" typically refers to aggregate government spending on a homogeneous good. In this paper, we open up this construct by analyzing the entire universe of procurement contracts of the US government and establish five facts. First, government spending is granular; that is, it is concentrated...
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Procurement law is rising in importance year after year. According to the European Commission, public procurement now accounts for over 14% of the EU's gross domestic product. Also at the ECB, spending through procurement is growing, and the evolution of its procurement law from non- binding...
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