The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) helped to preserve employment relationships during thesudden shutdown of economic activity due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyzeaccess of the minority and women-owned businesses to PPP loans. Our quantitative results showthat a...

Purpose: How has COVID-19 impacted meat processors' stock returns? The authors evaluate the effects of supply chain disruptions (e.g. lockdowns and COVID-19 incidences among workers) on stock market prices of meat processors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: This study...

Given the changes made to the agricultural lending system since the 1980s farm crisis, we investigate the current effects of credit availability on land values. Using data from Federal Reserve Agricultural Credit Surveys, we measure credit availability and perform county-level panel fixed...

Unlike many studies of learning and pharmaceuticals, this paper considers credence goods such as vitamins and the role of consumer experience in resolving uncertainty when the user cannot observe the effects of the goods after consumption. The Homescan data justifies variations in the purchases:...