To date, the discussion about what can be done in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic to blunt the economic, social, and psychological costs has largely focused on government bolstering small businesses through loans and grants, softening the effects of unemployment through unemployment...

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

The COVID-19 pandemic has induced chaos and turbulence in financial markets. The ongoing discussions and expectations for the future are quite bleak. In this study, we analyze the current status of the deterioration in foreign exchange markets by comparing it with the turbulence seen in the...