The COVID-19 pandemic has forced federal, state and local policymakers to respond by legislating, enacting, and … pandemic reduces the impact of these policies. Our results imply that while social distancing policies do lead to reductions in …

We analyze the role of international trade and health coordination in times of a pandemic by building a two … policies robustly feature inefficiently high tariffs that peak with the pandemic in the foreign economy. This distorts terms of … trade dynamics and magnifies the welfare costs of tariff wars during a pandemic due to lower levels of consumption and …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news … misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus …

between the economy and public health in a pandemic depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the … infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly … more. Moreover, job losses have been no higher in US states that implemented stay-at-home during the Covid-19 pandemic than …

in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic but only gradual ones---the great inflation of the 70s took more than 10 years … Spanish flu pandemic---which the estimated model endogenously recalls and uses to interpret inflation around the COVID-19 …

per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 … in both the pre-pandemic and pandemic-era U.S. economy. The key insight is that in their panicked reaction to the … industries provides new perspectives for 2006-22 and particularly for the nine pandemic quarters of 2020-22. Positive pandemic …

the global pandemic and war news reported in the New York Times to capture the positive effects of the end of World War I … pandemic in March 1920. We also find that the flu had a significant, but varied impact on nine NYSE sectors. The empirical …

the response. I use survey data from health departments to show that states which directly coordinate outbreak responses …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of the pandemic, providing insights into the consequences of alternative … equilibrium approaches may not provide the appropriate framework for analyzing the pandemic: individuals know that they don’t know …

fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines … changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays closely resembling those of weekends. The 16% residential increase …