A study by the ifo Institute and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), conducted in April 2020, finds that economic interests and health policy objectives are not necessarily in conflict when it comes to the speed of easing of restrictions: Their scenarios show that a quick re-opening, promising short-term economic benefits, increases the overall costs in the long-run. A gradual relaxation of measures, in turn, limits economic costs while helping the containment of the virus.
Latest COVID-research (IX)-NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 24 August edition:
- Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer, and James X. Sullivan
- Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19, by Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky, and Tao Zha
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Latest COVID-research (VIII) – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 17 August edition:
- COVID-19 and Crime: Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Domestic Violence, by Lindsey Rose Bullinger, Jillian B. Carr, and Analisa Packham
- Social Learning along International Migrant Networks, by Yuan Tian, Maria Esther Caballero, and Brian K. Kovak
- Decoding India’s Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate, by Minu Philip, Debraj Ray, and S. Subramanian
- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19, by Brian Beach, Karen Clay, and Martin H. Saavedra
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Latest COVID-research (VII) – NBER Working Papers
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From the 10 August edition:
- Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19, by Edward L. Glaeser, Ginger Zhe Jin, Benjamin T. Leyden, and Michael Luca
- This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession, by Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, and Michèle Tertilt
- The Effect of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from COVID-19, by Miguel Garza Casado, Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, David McQuown, Daniel Rich, and Bruce A. Weinberg
- Norwegian and US Policies Alleviate Business Vulnerability Due to the Covid-19 Shock Equally Well, by Annette Alstadsæter, Julie Brun Bjørkheim, Wojciech Kopczuk, and Andreas Økland
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Latest COVID-research (VI) – NBER Working Papers
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From the 3 August edition:
- Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work, by Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Raffaella Sadun
- Measuring the labor market at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, by Alexander W. Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin, Jesse Rothstein, and Matt Unrath
- COVID-19 Prevention and Air Pollution in the Absence of a Lockdown, by Hung-Hao Chang, Chad Meyerhoefer, and Feng-An Yang
- Information Frictions and Access to the Paycheck Protection Program, by Christopher Neilson, John Eric Humphries, and Gabriel Ulyssea
- The Risk of Being a Fallen Angel and the Corporate Dash for Cash in the Midst of COVID, by Viral V. Acharya and Sascha Steffen
- Effects of State COVID-19 Closure Policy on NON-COVID-19 Health Care Utilization, by Engy Ziedan, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing
- Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19, by M. Keith Chen, Judith A. Chevalier, and Elisa F. Long
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Latest COVID-research (V) – NBER Working Papers
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From the 27 July edition:
- Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications, by Andrew T. Levin, Kensington B. Cochran, and Seamus P. Walsh
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities, byJoseph A. Benitez, Charles J. Courtemanche, and Aaron Yelowitz
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Underestimated option? Repurposing drugs for treatment of COVID-19
With the main focus on finding a COVID-19 vaccine, policy makers and industry have paid less attention to the development of therapeutics. Within this field, Susan Athey, Rena Conti, Richard Frank and Jonathan Gruber show, the repurosing of existing drugs for treatment of COVID-19 diserves special attention, as the safety of these drugs is already established and their manufacturing well understood. Given that this path is less attractive for private sector investors in comparison to the development of new drugs that can be sold at higher prizes, the authors propose a three-part plan for the U.S. government to incentivice investment and studies into repurposing drugs for COVID-19 treatment. The plan suggests among other things public-private partnerships, clinical development networks and premiums paid for successfully bringing repurposed drugs to the market.
Latest COVID-research (IV) -NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 13 July edition:
- COVID-19 and Implications for Automation, by Alex W. Chernoff, Casey Warman
- How Much does COVID-19 Increase with Mobility? Evidence from New York and Four Other U.S. Cities, by Edward L. Glaeser, Caitlin S. Gorback, Stephen J. Redding
- Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation, by Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay
- Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland, by Karl M. Aspelund, Michael C. Droste, James H. Stock, Christopher D. Walker
- Did President Trump’s Tulsa Rally Reignite COVID-19? Indoor Events and Offsetting Community Effects, by Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Connor Redpath, Joseph J. Sabia
- Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities, by Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, et al.
- Private Precaution and Public Restrictions: What Drives Social Distancing and Industry Foot Traffic in the COVID-19 Era?, Christopher J. Cronin, William N. Evans
- Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Massimo Pulejo, Pablo Querubín
- Natural Disasters and Elective Medical Services: How Big is the Bounce-Back?, by Tatyana Deryugina, Jonathan Gruber, Adrienne Sabety
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Latest COVID-research (III) -NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 6 July edition:
- The Determinants of Fiscal and Monetary Policies During the Covid-19 Crisis, by Efraim Benmelech, Nitzan Tzur-Ilan
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Continued Losses and the Partial Rebound in May 2020, by Robert W. Fairlie
- Real-Time Real Economic Activity: Exiting the Great Recession and Entering the Pandemic Recession, by Francis X. Diebold
- Older People are Less Pessimistic about the Health Risks of Covid-19, by Pedro Bordalo, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer
- Business in a Time of Spanish Influenza, by Howard Bodenhorn
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Latest COVID-research (II) -NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 29 June edition:
- Early Evidence on the Impact of COVID-19 and the Recession on Older Workers, by Truc Thi Mai Bui, Patrick Button, Elyce G. Picciotti
- Back to Business and (Re)employing Workers? Labor Market Activity During State COVID-19 Reopenings, by Wei Cheng, Patrick Carlin, Joanna Carroll, et al.
- Epidemics in the Neoclassical and New Keynesian Models, by Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, Mathias Trabandt
- Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network, by Pablo Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani, Edouard Schaal
- What Jobs are Being Done at Home During the Covid-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys, by Alexander W. Bartik, Zoe B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher T. Stanton
- Portfolio Delegation and 401(k) Plan Participant Responses to COVID-19, by David Blanchett, Michael S. Finke, Jonathan Reuter
- COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan, by Hung-Hao Chang, Chad Meyerhoefer
- Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020, by Austan Goolsbee, Chad Syverson
- Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19, by Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, Venky Venkateswaran
- How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data, by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team
- Pandemic Shocks and Fiscal-Monetary Policies in the Eurozone: COVID-19 Dominance During January – June 2020, by Yothin Jinjarak, Rashad Ahmed, Sameer Nair-Desai, Weining Xin, Joshua Aizenman
- Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for State Government Tax Revenues, by Jeffrey Clemens, Stan Veuger
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