covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county …. Specifically, an increase of initiated vaccination rates of 1 percentage point increases weekly consumer spending by 0.6 percent …

surprises in vaccines administered, we find that an unexpected increase in vaccination per capita is associated with a … benefits being larger when vaccination rates are higher. Country-specific conditions play an important role, with lower …

’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in … vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than … challenges and vaccine hesitancy. This paper quantifies the importance of various factors in driving vaccination rates across …

impact of the pandemic and boosted consumer spending. First, the vaccination deployment has a statistically and economically …

perceived default risk, bond prices, and haircuts by maturity …

that the extent to which fiscal variables affect domestic bond yields in emerging economies depends on the level of global … domestic bond yields in emerging economies. However, when market participants are on edge, they pay greater attention to …

, Japanese, and UK government bond and equity markets in a vector autoregression. The results suggest that U.S. financial shocks …