Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Serrano-Quintero, Rafael - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 16 (2025) 1, pp. 5-81
This paper builds a spatial model of trade with supply-chain links to examine the effect of economic links and anti-COVID policies on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave across NUTS2 regions of the European Union (EU) and the UK. We find that the effort to reduce infection...