This research is willing to evaluate the behavior and characteristics of a worldwide pandemic economic crisis (COVID-19) and a global financial crisis in the year 2008. We propose a new indicator to compare these two types of crises. The new indicator is entitled “The economic leakage Index...

While the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all countries, output losses vary considerably across countries. We provide a first analysis of robust determinants of the observed initial output losses using model-averaging techniques-Weighted Average Least Squares and Bayesian Model Averaging. The...

While the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all countries, output losses vary considerably across countries. We provide a first analysis of robust determinants of observed initial output losses using model-averaging techniques-Weighted Average Least Squares and Bayesian Model Averaging. The results...