Matthias Schrappe, Hedwig François-Kettner, Matthias Gruhl, Dieter Hart, Franz Knieps, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Püschel, Gerd Glaeske: Thesenpapier 3.0. Die Pandemie durch SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – eine erste Bilanz – Strategie: Stabile Kontrolle des Infektionsgeschehens. Prävention: Risikosituationen erkennen. Bürgerrechte: Rückkehr zur Normalität (Thesis paper 3.0. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – an initial assessment – Strategy: Stable control of the infection process. Prevention: Identifying risk situations. Civil rights: Return to normality), Köln, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, 28. Juni 2020.
Monthly archives: October 2020
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Matthias Schrappe, Hedwig François-Kettner, Matthias Gruhl, Dieter Hart, Franz Knieps, Philip Manow, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Püschel, Gerd Glaeske: Ad hoc-Stellungnahme. Die Pandemie durch SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – Gleichgewicht und Augenmaß behalten [Ad hoc statement. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – Keeping balance and sense of proportion], Köln, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg October 2020.
Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra: US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic, in: BFI-WP, Nr. 2020-62, May 2020. The authors used microdata on income together with details of the U.S. unemployment insurance system of each state under the CARES Act to calculate the overall distribution of current insurance benefits.
Vellore Arthi, John Parman: Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing, Economic History and the Long-run Impacts of COVID-19, in: NBER Working Paper Series, Working Paper 27805, September 2020. In their work, Vellore Arthi and John Parman ask how COVID-19 could affect human capital and well-being in the long term. They observed severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. For them, this public health crisis and the accompanying economic downturn seems to dwarf the scale, scope and destructive power of most modern pandemics. Since knowledge about other modern pandemics is largely limited to short-term effects, recent experience may do little to help predict and […]
Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama: The Economic Impact of the Black Death, in: IIEP-WP-2020-14, August 2020. The “Black Death” was the biggest demographic shock in European history. The authors of this paper review the origin, spread and mortality of the disease. They document that it was an plausibly exogenous shock for the European economy and trace its aggregate and local impacts in both the short and long term.