Governments around the world have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak with a mix of policies. The strictest responses of the New Zealand government are notable, given their abilities to contain and limit the spread of the virus. However, their impacts on stock returns remain unclear. This ...
Government responseStringency IndexBackground: Amidst a global COVID-19 pandemic situation, government adequate preparation and response plays an important role. Therefore, this study aimeddoi:10.2139/ssrn.3631304Lee, HocheolKim, Ji EonMoon, Seok Jun...
Public safety is the government’s top priority in its response to COVID-19 and it is taking firm and comprehensive action, consistent with the best scientific evidence. As well as being focused on safety and the public health response to the outbreak, the government recognises that people ...
August 31, 2020 marked the official six-month mark since we went into COVID-19 lockdown in my home state of Connecticut. Around that time, I published the first in a series ofblogsthat sought to break down government response efforts into logical and digestible phases to help leaders orga...
COVID-19OxCGRT indexEffectiveness of Government ResponsesExcess MortalityThis paper assesses the quantitative impact of government interventions on deaths related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Using daily data for 32 countries and relyindoi:10.2139/ssrn.3602004Dergiades, Theologos...
Financial support for patients(对病人的经济支持)The government said that the COVID-19 patients didn't need to worryabout paying fees for medicine or medical services.The fees would come frommedical insurance(医疗保险).。Longer national holiday(延长法定假期)The Chinese New Year holiday was 3 days...
(2021). We then feed these results into an agent-based model in order to demonstrate the possible economic and financial effects of the COVID-19 crisis and examine the outcome of possible government policies aimed at restarting the economy. As researchers have been focusing on both the ...
These, then, are the people driving the government’s response to Covid-19, alongside the more often discussed ‘A-Team’ at Imperial College. It should perhaps come as no surprise that the message from the UK Government for several weeks now has been thatthebehaviour of the ...
In order to assess the responsiveness of government restrictions, we take the Oxford COVID-19 stringency index (Hale et al., 2020) from 2020/1/1 to 2020/4/30. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index (from here on simply “stringency index”) is a composite measure trackin...
There are much more uncertainties than there was before the COVID-19 because of the way our governments responded to the COVID-19. That's one thing. But then there's a whole other kind of thing in the United States, which is concerning to me and to many other economists. During the ...