COVID-19We extract aggregate demand and supply shocks for the US economy from real-time survey data on inflation and real GDP growth using a novel identification schemedoi:10.2139/ssrn.3611399Bekaert, GeertEngstrom, EricErmolov, AndreySocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Countries have sought to stop the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by severely restricting travel and in-person commercial activities. Here, we analyse the supply-chain effects of a set of idealized lockdown scenarios, using the latest globa
As the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created a new era, businesses continue to understand the pandemic’s crippling effects on various aspects of their daily operations (Do et al.,2021). This virus reveals that events characterised by unprecedented uncertainty impinge on normal demand and supply ...
people, tend to suffer from anxiety due to uncertainties coming from the new virus, but the pharmacies all over the world may it a point to comply with the requirements of the demand of products and the medicine sales and shortages are due to the effects made by the Covid – 19. Even...
companies to double down on creating essential new products such as COVID-19 tests or vaccines. Other sectors, particularly consumer products, couldn’t keep products on the shelves in the early days of the pandemic since toilet paper, canned goods, flour and other staples were in high demand...
As COVID-19 Drove Up Demand, Labor Shortages Strained Supply When production facilities started coming back online in China, many experienced a skilled labor shortage on top of it all. With parts and components on hand, some simply did not have the expertise to carry out the backlog of ...
Supply and demand shocks COVID-19 Structural vector autoregressions Sign restrictions 1. Introduction The COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent public health policy response have caused widespread disruption in most economies. On one hand, authorities around the world have enforced containment and mitigation ...
We analyze the socioeconomic effects - defined as health gains, lockdown-easing effect, and supply-chain rebuilding benefit - of a set of idealized COVID-19 vaccine distribution scenarios. We find that an equitable vaccine distribution across the world would increase global economic benefits by ...
This fresh examination was a thought-provoking area that was required to be undertaken and to fill this gap, the researchers have examined the impact of Covid-19 and health expenditure on the global supply chain by utilizing balanced panel data for the period from January 2020 to June 2020. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering multiple disruptions on supply, distribution and demand side as well as the propagation between supply chain nodes. Many companies are dealing with challenges due to these disruptions while others are seizing opportunities. This chapter provides examples of affected ...