Can commercial trade represent the main indicator of the COVID-19 diffusion due to human-to-human interactions? A comparative analysis between Italy, France, and …

E Bontempi, M Coccia, S Vergalli, A Zanoletti - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
The main goal of this study is to analyze the relation between commercial trade and
pandemic severity in society, in order to support new hypotheses which can explain …

International trade as critical parameter of COVID-19 spread that outclasses demographic, economic, environmental, and pollution factors

E Bontempi, M Coccia - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that caused the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), generating high numbers of COVID-19 related …

Commercial exchanges instead of air pollution as possible origin of COVID-19 initial diffusion phase in Italy: more efforts are necessary to address interdisciplinary …

E Bontempi - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This communication aims to advocate a more coordinate activity mainly between medical
and environmental scientists to clarify some confusing information related to airborne …

Impact of COVID-19 on the trade of goods and services in Spain

A Minondo - Applied Economic Analysis, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the trade of goods and
services in Spain. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses monthly trade data at the …

The Europe second wave of COVID-19 infection and the Italy “strange” situation

E Bontempi - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
At the end of February 2020 COVID-19 infection appeared in Italy, with consequent diffusion,
in few weeks, in almost all the Europe. Despite that human-to-human is the recognized main …

Two mechanisms for accelerated diffusion of COVID-19 outbreaks in regions with high intensity of population and polluting industrialization: the air pollution-to-human …

M Coccia - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
What is COVID-19? Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is viral infection that generates a
severe acute respiratory syndrome with serious pneumonia that may result in progressive …

Understanding COVID-19 diffusion requires an interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional approach

E Bontempi, S Vergalli, F Squazzoni - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
After COVID-19 initial diffusion in Europe in March 2020, research has suggested a direct
correlation between environmental pollution and contagion dynamics (ie, environment-to …

[PDF][PDF] Impacts of covid-19 on international trade: evidence from the first quarter of 2020

K Hayakawa, H Mukunoki - IDE Discussion Paper, 2020 - ir.ide.go.jp
The aim of this study is to present early evidence for the impacts of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) on international trade. Accordingly, we investigate trade among 186 …

Factors determining the diffusion of COVID-19 and suggested strategy to prevent future accelerated viral infectivity similar to COVID

M Coccia - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
This study has two goals. The first is to explain the geo-environmental determinants of the
accelerated diffusion of COVID-19 that is generating a high level of deaths. The second is to …

The effect of mobility on the spread of COVID-19 in light of regional differences in the European Union

A Cheshmehzangi, M Sedrez, J Ren, D Kong, Y Shen… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly all over the world, affecting many countries to
varying degrees. In this study, an in-depth analysis of the factors influencing the spread of …