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China's stock market greatly outperformed other national markets during the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it did so even before it became evident that early containment efforts would flounder in the United States and many other countries. As to why, one view holds that...
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We model the learning process of market traders during the unprecedented COVID-19 event. We introduce a behavioral heterogeneous agents' model with bounded rationality by including a correction mechanism through representativeness (Gennaioli et al., 2015). To inspect the market crash induced by...
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Security Transaction Tax (STT) was introduced in the Indian capital market in 2004. It is a tax on transaction of equities as well as their derivatives. Despite the reduction in STT over the years, it constitutes a large percentage (next only to brokerage fee) of the total cost of trading. The...
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on criminal activity in the City of …
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did not impose a lockdown, we construct counterfactuals for what would have happened if it had imposed a lockdown, using a …, we find that a lockdown would have had sizable effects already after a week. The 3–4 weeks delay highlighted in previous …
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econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … lockdown cut fine particulate pollution by more than one-fifth. However, the magnitude of that effect varied considerably over …. Finally, we estimate that in 2020-2021, the lockdown reduced short-term deaths by 31 percent, a benefit valued at $180 million. …
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This article examines changes in the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence reports after the start of the pandemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions in six Latin American countries. The study uses three types of data sources: calls to domestic violence hotlines (for the...
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