Covid-19 lockdown cost/benefits: A critical assessment of the literature

DW Allen - International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
An examination of over 100 Covid-19 studies reveals that many relied on false assumptions
that over-estimated the benefits and under-estimated the costs of lockdown. The most recent …

The remote work revolution: Impact on real estate values and the urban environment: 2023 AREUEA Presidential Address

S Van Nieuwerburgh - Real Estate Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The covid‐19 pandemic induced a major shift in the prevalence of remote and hybrid work
arrangements. This review article studies the effects of this remote work revolution for …

The importance of agriculture in the economy: impacts from COVID‐19

J Beckman, AM Countryman - American journal of agricultural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Much of the attention from COVID‐19 has been on the impacts on tourism and other service
sectors; but there has been a growing interest in some agricultural and food topics, such as …

Smart cities and the urban digital divide

A Caragliu, CF Del Bo - npj Urban Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
The debate on urban smartness as an instrument for managing more efficient cities has
been revolving around the notion that Smart Cities might be causing an increase in …

A flash in the pan or a permanent change? The growth of homeworking during the pandemic and its effect on employee productivity in the UK

A Felstead, D Reuschke - Information Technology & People, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper has three aims: Firstly, it puts the pandemic-induced surge in
homeworking into context by charting trends in homeworking in the UK since the early …

[PDF][PDF] The relationship between engagement at work and organizational outcomes

JK Harter, FL Schmidt, S Agrawal… - Gallup Poll …, 2013 - media-01.imu.nl
Objective Business and work units in the same organization vary substantially in their levels
of engagement and performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the: 1) true …

Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: Cross-country evidence

S Muzi, F Jolevski, K Ueda, D Viganola - Small Business Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic
exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data collected …

COVID-19, productivity and reallocation: Timely evidence from three OECD countries

D Andrews, A Charlton, A Moore - 2021 - oecd-ilibrary.org
The longer run consequences of the pandemic will partly hinge on its impact on high
productivity firms, and the ongoing process of labour reallocation from low to high …

What cannot be cured must be endured: The long-lasting effect of a COVID-19 infection on workplace productivity.

K Fischer, JJ Reade, WB Schmal - Labour Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered economic shock waves across the globe. Exploiting
a natural experiment, this paper estimates how being infected with the virus shapes …

COVID-19 and corporate finance

M Pagano, J Zechner - The Review of Corporate Finance …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We distill evidence about the effects of COVID-19 on companies. Stock price reactions to the
shock differed greatly across firms, depending on their resilience to social distancing …