This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retail real estate and
high street landscape through acceleration of e-commerce and digitalization. The retail …

In this paper, we use transaction‐level bank account data from Denmark to study the
dynamics of consumer spending during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We document that …

This paper provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades
on income distribution. The pandemics in our sample, even though much smaller in scale …

Inequalities in the pandemic Page 1 SUMMARY This paper summarizes some of the major
inequalities that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses avenues for …

Abstract The global SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 Pandemic has disrupted public health,
economies, and housing markets since early 2020. The shock has called forth a number of …

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic led to a large number of studies in household finance, using
new high-frequency data in close to real time. In this article, we survey household behavior …

Pandemics have historically had a significant impact on economic inequality. However,
official inequality statistics are only available at low frequency and with considerable delay …

We document households' spending responses to a stimulus payment in Japan during the
COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, the Japanese government launched a …

In times of heightened uncertainty, consumers face incentives to build up precautionary
stocks of essential supplies. We study consumer spending dynamics during one such time …

This paper studies the causal effect of local exposure to COVID-19 on voting behaviour and
electoral outcomes using evidence from the regional elections held in Spain on 12 July …