Viral shocks to the world economy / Konstantin A. Kholodilin and Malte Rieth

We construct a news-based viral disease index and study the dynamic impact of epidemics on the world economy, using structural vector autoregressions. Epidemic shocks have persistently negative effects, both directly and indirectly, on affected countries and on world output. The shocks lead to a significant fall in global trade, employment, and consumer prices for three quarters, and the losses are permanent. In contrast, retail sales increase. Country studies suggest that the direct effects are four times larger than the indirect effects and that demand-side dominate supply-side contractions. Overall, the findings indicate that expansionary macroeconomic policy is an appropriate crisis response..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

Berlin: DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research ; 2020

Reihe:

Discussion papers / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 1861

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kholodilin, Konstantin, 1974- [VerfasserIn]
Rieth, Malte [VerfasserIn]

Links:

www.diw.de [kostenfrei]
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Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten) ; Illustrationen

Weitere IDs:

10419/218982

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1694350746