U.S. economic activity during the early weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak

Daniel Lewis, Karel Mertens and James Stock

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States. The WEI shows a strong and sudden decline in economic activity starting in the week ending March 21, 2020. In the most recent week ending April 4, the WEI indicates economic activity has fallen further to -8.89% scaled to 4-quarter growth in GDP

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Alternative title:	United States economic activity during the early weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak
Year of publication:	April 9, 2020
Authors:	Lewis, Daniel J. ; Mertens, Karel ; Stock, James H.
Publisher:	Dallas : Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Research Department
Subject:	Weekly Economic Index \| High Frequency \| Measurement of Economic Activity \| Coronavirus \| Epidemie \| Epidemic \| Wirtschaftsindikator \| Economic indicator \| Frühindikator \| Leading indicator \| Konjunktur \| Business cycle \| USA \| United States

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 16 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Research Department. - Dallas, Tex. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2136192-7. - Vol. 2011 FRB of Dallas Working Paper ; No. 2011
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	E66 - General Outlook and Conditions ; C51 - Model Construction and Estimation ; E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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