The goal of this piece is to survey the developing and rapidly growing literature on the
economic consequences of COVID‐19 and the governmental responses, and to synthetize …

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving
economic and financial decision-making. We first summarize recent work that documents an …

Importance The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed
unprecedented strain on patients and health care professionals and institutions, but the …

The 2020 CARES Act directed large cash payments to households. We analyze households'
spending responses using data from a Fintech nonprofit, exploring heterogeneity by income …

Payments systems generate vast amounts of naturally occurring transaction data rarely used
for constructing official statistics. We consider billions of transactions from card data from a …

We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 is more likely to spread
between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two …

The aim of the paper is to assess changes in mobility in public transport in Poland, as a
consequence of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse the problem from …

We link the county-level rollout of stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic to
anonymized cell phone records and consumer spending data. We document three patterns …

We argue that occupations are a key explanatory variable for understanding the early
transmission of COVID-19 in New York City, finding that they play a larger role than other …

Since December 2019, the world has witnessed the stringent effect of an unprecedented
global pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute …