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We provide an estimate of the value of a cure using the joint behavior of stock prices and a vaccine progress indicator during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our indicator is based on the chronology of stage-by-stage progress of individual vaccines and related news. We construct a general...
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We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the …
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seeking behavior during a public health crisis. This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual … eligibility rollout across states and over time as an instrument for individual vaccination status. We find that receiving a COVID … protection against infection. We also find evidence to indicate that vaccination affects healthcare seeking behavior by easing …
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Avian flu has been the focus of significant attention since 2004, when there were reports of human infections in Asia from the avian flu H5N1 strain. To prevent the catastrophic mortality of mankind, several governments are stockpiling antivirals and pharmaceutical firms are increasing their...
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We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly vaccinating a large share of the global population helps avoid economic, mortality, and social losses, which in the case of Covid-19 mounted into trillions of dollars. However,...
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Using the pandemic as a laboratory, we show that asset markets assign a time- varying price to firms' disaster risk exposure. In 2020 the cross-section of realized and expected stock returns reflected firms' different exposure to the pandemic, as measured by their vulnerability to social...
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This paper examines the impact vaccination programs have on the stock market volatility of the travel and leisure … sector. Using daily data from 56 countries over the period from January 2020 to March 2021, we find that vaccination leads to …
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