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The distributional impact of recessions : the Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession

Shibata, Ippei - 2020

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...

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Inequality in the Spanish labor market during the COVID-19 crisis

Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022

We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...

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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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The Great Lockdown : international risk sharing through trade and policy coordination

Engler, Philipp; Pouokam, Nathalie; Rodríguez, Diego; … - 2020

Voluntary and government-mandated lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have caused causing drastic reductions in economic activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home and foreign goods, and show that trading partners'...

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Social repercussions of pandemics

Barrett, Philip; Chen, Sophia - 2021

Epidemics may have social scarring effects, increasing the likelihood of social unrest. They may also have mitigating effect, suppressing unrest by dissuading social activities. Using a new monthly panel on social unrest in 130 countries, we find a positive cross-sectional relationship between...

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COVID-19 vaccines : a shot in arm for the economy

Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mano, Rui - 2021

We quantify the effect of vaccinations on economic activity in the United States using weekly county level data covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county-level pharmacy density interacted with state-level vaccine...

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State-level health and economic impact of COVID-19 in India

Deb, Pragyan; Xu, TengTeng - 2021

The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union territories. This paper quantifies the impact of containment measures and voluntary social distancing on both the spread of the virus and the economy at the state level during...

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Corporate sector resilience in India in the wake of the COVID-19 shock

Górnicka, Lucyna; Ogawa, Sumiko; Xu, TengTeng - 2021

To assess the resilience of India's corporate sector against COVID-19-related shocks, we conducted a series of stress tests using firm-level corporate balance sheet data. The results reveal a differential impact across sectors, with the most severe impact on contact-intensive services,...

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Monetary policy and COVID-19

Brzoza-Brzezina, Michał; Kolasa, Marcin; Makarski, … - 2021

We study the macroeconomic effects of the COVID-19 epidemic in a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium setup with … play during the epidemic. According to our results, treating the observed output contraction as a standard recession leads … economy and containing the epidemic. If no administrative restrictions are in place, the second motive prevails and, despite …

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The effects of COVID-19 vaccines on economic activity

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021

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