Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...

How do pandemics affect for-profit and not-for-profit organizations differently? To address this question, we analyze optimal lockdowns in a two-sector continuous-time individual-based mean-field epidemiological model. We uncover a unique solution that depends on network structure, lockdown...

Since the recent outbreak of the COVID-19, South Korea has demonstrated successful pandemic management that can be exemplary to other countries. This paper analyzes how South Korea’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the perceptions of the country in Europe. Through a survey...

Since the recent outbreak of the COVID-19, South Korea has demonstrated successful pandemic management that can be exemplary to other countries. This paper analyzes how South Korea’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the perceptions of the country in Europe. Through a survey...

The existing studies have offered evidence that the widespread of COVID-19 is associated with an increase in global foreign exchange volatility. Can vaccination efforts help to mitigate these adverse effects? Our paper turns to this new question by investigating the impact of vaccinations on the...

Objectives: This note provides an assessment of COVID-19 acceleration among groups with different vaccine status in France.Methods: We assess viral acceleration using a novel indicator introduced in Baunez et al. (2021). The acceleration index relates the percentage change of tests that have...

This paper estimates how COVID-19 lockdown policies impacted economic activity. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we establish the divergence of district-level nighttime light intensity, mobility and migration, as well as household-level income and consumption, across different...

In the latter half of 2020, Los Angeles was dubbed by the media and academicians as the latest epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States. Using time-series analysis on Los Angeles Police Department crime data from 2017 through 2020, this paper tests the economic theory of crime, routine...

The article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. The features of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic have been studied. The features of how this crisis differs from the economic crisis caused by the Spanish flu are presented. The main function of the economic...

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...