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Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana M.; Paunov, Caroline - 2022

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

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Contact-Intensity, Collapsing Entertainment Sector and Wage Inequality : A Finite Change Model of COVID-19 Impact

Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga - 2021

In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Policy Responses and Stock Markets in the G20

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2021

This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the G20 countries. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, which typically focuses only on either Covid-19 deaths or lockdown policies, our analysis is based on a...

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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis

Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana M.; Poupakis, … - 2022

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...

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COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships and Schooling Outcomes

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2022

We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...

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The Global Sanctions Data Base – Release 3 : COVID-19, Russia, and Multilateral Sanctions

Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; … - 2022

This paper introduces the third update/release of the Global Sanctions Data Base (GSDB-R3). The GSDB-R3 extends the period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods – COVID-19 and the war between Russia and Ukraine. The new update of the GSDB contains a total...

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Rescue Policies for Small Businesses in the COVID-19 Recession

Nola, Alessandro Di; Kaas, Leo; Wang, Haomin - 2022

While the COVID-19 pandemic had a large and asymmetric impact on firms, many countries quickly enacted massive business rescue programs which are specifically targeted to smaller firms. Little is known about the effects of such policies on business entry and exit, factor reallocation, and...

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COVID-19 shocking global value chains

Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021

In early 2020, the disease Covid-19 caused a drastic lockdown of the Chinese economy. We use a quantitative trade model with input-output linkages to gauge the effects of this adverse supply shock in China on the global economy through international trade and global value chains (GVCs). We find...

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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …

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Platform Design and Innovation Incentives : Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021

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