We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act …

Great Recession, payment relief was more difficult to come by whereas the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security …

We review early evidence on how household consumption behavior has evolved over the pandemic and how different groups … findings and challenges to the design of stimulus policies from the pandemic. In conclusion, we identify several open issues …

across counties over the COVID-19 pandemic and Facebook's Social Connectedness Index (SCI), we find that a 10% rise in SCI … given the pandemic outbreaks first took place in well-connected regions. We also show how the size of aggregate responses …

consistent with adverse selection during the pandemic, while we do find advantageous selection. Moreover, life insurance … policyholders were more likely to get vaccinated, thus taking ex-post preventive action reducing their pandemic risk. Such positive …

shock on the use and availability of consumer credit. First, we find that in counties severely affected by the pandemic … increase their outstanding balances. Second, while both local pandemic severity and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs …) have a significantly negative effect on credit use, the pandemic itself is the main driver. Third, we report a drastic …

their customers who were financially affected by the pandemic. Unlike previous disaster assistance programs that were … typically short in duration and localized, the COVID-19 pandemic affected millions of consumers across the country for a … stimulus and benefit payments, provided some stability to many consumers’ financial circumstances during the pandemic. It is …

progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we …