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Elections and Policies : Evidence from the COVID Pandemic
Grechyna, Daryna - 2023
This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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Globalization and Outbreak of COVID-19 : An Empirical Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
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The Trade Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
Using a gravity-like approach, we study how Covid-19 deaths and lockdown policies affected countries’ imports from China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China, suggesting that the negative demand effects prevailed...
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Trade Finance, Gaps and the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Review of Events and Policy Responses to Date
Auboin, Marc - 2021
Developments in trade finance in 2020 were largely driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve years after the great financial crisis of 2008-09, the issue of trade finance reemerged as a matter of urgency. While the current pandemic-related crisis did not have a financial cause, one...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Policy Responses and Stock Markets in the G20
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2021
This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the … particularly severe Covid-19 conditions decrease returns in the non-G7 countries whilst increase volatility in the G7 ones. Fiscal …
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined … networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral … of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 …
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Betting Market Efficiency in the Presence of Unfamiliar Shocks : The Case of Ghost Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fischer, Kai - 2020
expectations adapt to an exogenous shock: the introduction of soccer ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that betting …
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Costly, But (Relatively) Ineffective? An Assessment of Germany's Temporary VAT Rate Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023
We evaluate Germany’s temporary value-added tax (VAT) rate reduction as a tool to stimulate consumer spending during the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two-step procedure. First, we carry out a careful...
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