Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022
, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying … from January 2018 to December 2020, we estimate a difference-in-differences specification of the COVID-19 incidence (deaths … per capita) mediated by product vulnerabilities. We account for the precise lag between when the COVID-19 shock hit the …