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 use data on deaths in New York City, Madrid, Stockholm, and other world cities as well
as in various US states and other regions and countries to estimate, quickly and with limited …

Background: Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus carry differential risks to public health. The
Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant, first identified in Botswana on November 11, 2021, has spread …

Key factors in modeling a pandemic and guiding policy-making include mortality rates
associated with infections; the ability of government policies, medical systems, and society to …

We carry out some analysis of the daily data on the number of new cases and the number of
new deaths by (191) countries as reported to the European Centre for Disease Prevention …

We survey approaches to macroeconomic forecasting during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Due
to the unprecedented nature of the episode, there was greater dependence on information …

Economic analysis of effective policies for managing epidemics requires an integrated
economic and epidemiological approach. We develop and estimate a spatial, micro-founded …

This paper is devoted to modeling and predicting COVID-19 confirmed cases through a
multiple linear regression. Especially, prediction intervals of the COVID-19 cases are …

Using high-frequency panel data for US counties, I estimate the full dynamic response of
COVID-19 cases and deaths to exogenous movements in mobility and weather. I find …

We propose a piecewise linear quantile trend model to analyse the trajectory of the COVID-
19 daily new cases (ie the infection curve) simultaneously across multiple quantiles. The …