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lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till …
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We investigate how politico-economic factors shaped government responses to the spread of COVID-19. Our simple framework uses epidemiological, economic and politico-economic arguments. Confronting the theory with US state level data we find strong evidence for partisanship even when we control...
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In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...
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We study the impact of the Belgium lockdown on retail prices using a unique dataset tracking daily prices and … promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with …, retailers, products, and over time. We show that LP chains reacted the most to the lockdown with spatial heterogeneity. The …
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population and political stability are conducive to a prompt activation of a government's lockdown policy after initial cases, a …
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