We study the impact of the Belgium lockdown on retail prices using a unique dataset tracking daily prices and … promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with …, retailers, products, and over time. We show that LP chains reacted the most to the lockdown with spatial heterogeneity. The …

In response to the Covid-19 outbreak the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown on March 22, 2020 and ordered … population across municipalities induced by the economic lockdown. The difference-in-differences empirical design compares … outcomes in municipalities above and below the median variation in the share of active population before and after the lockdown …

We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown … following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased …

measure to 35 percent with a strong containment measure; second, recovery from recession emerges when the lockdown policy is … relaxed. On that basis, the output would return to its pre-lockdown level by the end of 2021; third, a return infection is …

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than three months … message is that there is no “health vs. economics” dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis … like this, balancing its economic costs against its health benefits. Moreover, the optimal lockdown is dynamic, changes …

risk exposure affect the welfare effect of lockdowns? This paper examines the ‘welcomed lockdown’ hypothesis, namely the … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on …

rules during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany and draws on unique data from the 2019 and 2020 waves of the German AID …