We examine the impact of government interventions on the spread of COVID-19 and consumer spending. We do this by first estimating models of COVID-19 spread, consumer spending and social distancing. Social distancing has a large effect on reducing COVID-19 spread, while mask mandates are most...

There are many covid-19 related uncertainties, despite the countries’ effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 and embrace solutions against this world pandemic. The current paper seeks to identify challenges imposed by the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 pandemic and its potential...

This paper presents the first investigation into the economic consequences of the zero-COVID policy implemented by the Chinese government as a pilot experiment in using big data for country management from 2020 to 2022. Our study includes an original county-daily panel data set on the COVID risk...