With the increasing number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths in Nigeria, the pandemic has led to massive public reactions. This data attempted to evaluate the knowledge, impacts, and government intervention during the pandemic. An online survey was conducted using a questionnaire shared via ...
First, we examine whether governments’ intervention measures were effective at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Second, we explore the impacts of governments’ restriction stringency as regards public social activity on the economic growth of the country. By using weekly OECD macroeconomic panel ...
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; OxCGRT; policies 1. Introduction The risks to sustainable development progress are significantly increased during health pandemics. Such crises make the development, implementation, and effectiveness of national intervention policies critical for alleviating the adverse effects on...
The U.S. government has a long history of leading economic bailouts. The first major intervention occurred during the Panic of 1792 when Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton authorized purchases to prevent the collapse of the securities market.1 When private enterprises are in need of rescue, ...
COVID-19 pandemic. With reoccurring infection outbreaks due to low vaccination rates, but also despite high vaccination rates, for the immediate future face masks may remain to be a cheap, non-invasive, and prudent intervention. In this study, we focus on the initial phase of the pandemic ...
et al. Impact of self-imposed prevention measures and short-term government intervention on mitigating and delaying a COVID-19 epidemic. PLoS Med. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003166 (2020). Kraemer, M. U. et al. The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-...
except briefly during the pandemic emergency when such regulation led to catastrophic consequences. Catastrophic consequences that had been predicted in advanced by Paul Clement and Lawrence Tribe. Despite this, for reasons I do not understand, the FDA plan is marching forward. ...
This study investigates the impact of government policies on the weekly stock returns of 73 global airline companies in 36 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using panel data estimation techniques with country and week fixed effects, we find that the overall government policies, containment and...
GovernmentguaranteeprogrammesduringCOVID-19weremostlyadoptedasa matterofurgency.Underextremeuncertaintyduringthepandemic,banksandfirms facedliquidityandcreditconstraintsastheywerehitbyseveredemandshocks. ThisPolicyInsightanalysesgovernmentguaranteeprogrammesforbanklendingto ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive economic shocks, hurting companies and disrupting global production and consumption of markets, organizations, and commodities. This study investigates the effect of government intervention and transformational leadership on the relationship between COVID-19 containment...