A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i … economic fallout of the pandemic …

activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home … and foreign goods, and show that trading partners' asynchronous entries into the global pandemic induce mutual welfare … opportunities to contain the spread of the pandemic. We characterize the Nash game of strategic choices of containment policies as a …

pandemic fades, unrest may reemerge in locations where it previously existed …

factors. However, our granular analysis using high-frequency (daily) data indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a … economies, which may reflect the greater severity of the pandemic and depth of the ensuing economic crisis in these countries as …

pandemic may be larger than those flowing from the historical pandemics in our sample, and larger than those following typical …

information campaigns - rather than stay-at-home requirements. Using past coronavirus outbreaks as an instrumental variable, we …

While the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all countries, output losses vary considerably across countries. We provide a …