lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing …

In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts … narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide decline in both earnings and employment …

risk exposure affect the welfare effect of lockdowns? This paper examines the 'welcomed lockdown' hypothesis, namely the … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on …

progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we … observe three temporal phases, namely the normal (pre-Covid-19) period, the anticipation period, and the lockdown period … first week of the preventive lockdown saw panic buying with sales jumping by 30%, followed by a more subdued growth during …

economy that allows discerning between lockdown shocks and a real business cycle shocks. With this methodology at hand, we … then evaluate the impact of lockdown measures on economic uncertainty in a second step. Overall, we only find a moderate … policy uncertainty decreases after a lockdown shock. …