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epidemic diseases raised in their quarterly earnings conference calls. We construct text-based measures of the costs, benefits …, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80 other countries associate with the spread of Covid-19 and other epidemic … diseases. We identify which firms and sectors expect to lose/gain from a given epidemic and which are most affected by the …
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We provide evidence of delayed attention and inaction in response to COVID-19 in countries that did not experience SARS in 2003. Using cross-country data, we find that individuals in countries that had SARS infections in 2003 search more intensively for COVID-19-related information on Google in...
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Do non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing mortality during a pandemic necessarily have adverse economic effects? We use variation in the timing and intensity of NPIs across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to examine their economic impact. While the pandemic itself was...
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-COVID-19 crisis can play a crucial role to help people in quarantine. Basically, we need to assume that in any epidemic … diseases relief humanitarian aid: (i) the aerial monitoring massive epidemic contagious diseases spread magnitude evaluation …; (ii) the massive epidemic contagious diseases logistic and cargo delivery; (iii) the post-massive epidemic contagious …
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current and lagged infections or deaths. Agents' choices in turn affect the dynamics of the epidemic by reducing contacts in …
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's Republic of China, Italy, South Korea, France, Spain, Germany, Japan and the United States of America. Our empirical results …
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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...
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This article explores the response in the United States to the 2014 Ebola outbreak as a consequence of the way public health professionals and the media portrayed and planned for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). The authors first trace the “outbreak narrative” from the late 1960s to...
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explain the epidemic development in the UK, the USA and Brazil through the model lens. Moreover, we show how our model would …
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