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 …

. 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. …

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce … economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive … effects of the lockdown for 31 European countries. Our results confirm that the lockdown is likely to significantly increase …