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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies

Milani, Fabio - 2020

explain not only the spread of the disease, but also cross-country spillovers in perceptions about coronavirus risk and in … social distancing behavior. In the early phases of the pandemic, perceptions of coronavirus risk in most countries are …

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A matter of trust? : political trust and the Covid-19 pandemic

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and controlling for other determinants, we find that government trust...

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Interpreting, analysing and modelling COVID-19 mortality data

Sornette, Didier; Mearns, Euan; Schatz, Michael; Wu, Ke; … - 2020

We present results on the mortality statistics of the COVID-19 epidemic in a number of countries. Our data analysis … population, a main reason behind the relatively more severe COVID-19 epidemic in the Western countries is found to be their … close to the end of the epidemic from those that are still in the middle of it. This raises many questions in terms of …

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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross country interdependencies

Milani, Fabio - 2020

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Density and Distancing in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Borg, Gabriele; Giambra, Samuele; Knight, Samsun - 2020

We study the evolution of social distancing behaviors across the U.S. on the number and density of individuals in public places and businesses, and show that the latter has decreased significantly less than overall foot traffic. Breaking this effect down by category of place, we find a...

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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic

Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022

Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...

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Global Corporate Stress Tests - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses

Tressel, Thierry; Ding, Xiaodan - 2022

Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability...

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Will the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Persist? Prognosis from 21st Century Pandemics

Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2022

COVID-19 has had a disruptive economic impact in 2020, but how long its impact will persist remains unclear. We offer a prognosis based on an analysis of the effects of five previous major epidemics in this century. We find that these pandemics led to significant and persistent reductions in...

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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024

In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and calibrate a health economic model based on principles...

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Unpacking global shocks

Graziano, Alejandro G.; Tian, Yuan - 2024

Economy-wide shocks affect demand, supply, and intermediary sectors simultaneously. We dissect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade by combining information from customs records, smartphone-based human mobility, and container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions...

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