This paper analyzes card payments to the retail sector in Switzerland during the COVID-19
crisis. We provide evidence on aggregate effects and regional shifts. Pronounced shifts …

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) imposes an unusual risk to the physical and mental
health of healthcare workers and thereby to the functioning of healthcare systems during the …

Introduction Health equity is a moral and ethical imperative for clinicians, researchers,
policymakers, and all who use health research. Both Cochrane and the Campbell …

Objective: The aim was to assess the psychosocial burden, risk-perception and attitudes
regarding the coronavirus pandemic among the Austrian population after the second …

To understand the geographical and temporal spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the first
documented wave of infection in the state of Vaud, Switzerland, we analyzed clusters of …

The COVID-19 crisis increased unemployment all over the World, with significant regional
heterogeneity. This paper intends to analyze this territorial heterogeneity for the Portuguese …

The literature on fertility in context of crises considers major crises exclusively as economic
experiences, however, they are also social phenomena, affecting communities, morality and …

As an emerging field in media studies that advocates for a constructively peaceful approach
to reporting any kind of crisis, the adoption of PJ into the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has incurred a substantial economic and social impact around the
world. Many sectors have been drastically affected but the tourism and hospitality industry …

This paper analyses the determinants of firm participation in the Swiss COVID-19 loan
programme, which aims to bridge firms' liquidity shortfalls that have resulted from the …