The paper evaluates the dynamic impact of various policies adopted by US states on the
growth rates of confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths as well as social distancing behavior …

While most countries imposed a lockdown in response to the first wave of COVID-19
infections, Sweden did not. To quantify the lockdown effect, we approximate a counterfactual …

Social distancing as a form of nonpharmaceutical intervention has been enacted in many
countries as a form of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. There has been a large interest in …

This paper combines data on GDP, unemployment, and Google's COVID-19 Community
Mobility Reports with data on deaths from COVID-19 to study the macroeconomic outcomes …

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic a large number of countries introduced a range of
non-pharmaceutical interventions. Whereas the policies are similar across countries, country …

Schools have been central in the debate about COVID-19. On the one hand, many have
argued that they should be kept open, given their importance to youngsters and the future of …

This paper studies the labor market effects of non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to
combat the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on the Nordic countries which showed one of …

This paper examines the propagation of COVID‐19 across the Spanish provinces and
assesses the effectiveness of the Spanish lockdown of the population implemented on …

We investigate the effectiveness of business shutdowns to contain the Covid-19 disease. In
March 2020, Italy shut down operations in selected sectors of its economy. Using a …

This paper develops a methodology for tracking in real-time the impact of shocks (such as
natural disasters, financial crises or pandemics) on gross domestic product (GDP) by …