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The impact of German public support transfers on firm finance : evidence from the Covid-19 crisis

Gärtner, Leo; Marek, Philipp - 2022

The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...

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Covid-19 and capital flows : the responses of investors to the responses of governments

Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2021

This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...

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Pandemic schooling mode and student test scores: evidence from US States

Halloran, Clare; Jack, Rebecca; Okun, James; Oster, Emily - 2021

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Threshold effects during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from international tourist destinations

Stengos, Thanasēs; Polemis, Michael - 2020

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The trade impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021

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COVID-19 and pro-sociality: How do donors respond to local pandemic severity, increased salience, and media coverage?

Adena, Maja; Harke, Julian - 2021

Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable appeals were updated to include a reference to COVID-19. Did donors increase their giving in response to such changes? In order to answer these questions, we conducted a...

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Pandemic recessions and contact tracing

Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2021

We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model in which infected agents may not show any symptoms of the disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly...

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Working from home during COVID-19 and beyond : survey evidence from employers

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2021

Based on survey responses from more than 1,700 managers in Germany, this study elicits employers’ perceptions of working from home during COVID-19 and their long-term expectations for the time after the pandemic. Based on employers’ forecasts of the share of employees working from home...

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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020 - This version: June 2020, revised version

Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...

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Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic

Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020

approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the epidemic identical across regions. The procedure uncovers regional variation in … the stage of the epidemic at the time of policy implementation. This variation delivers clean identification of the policy …

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