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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

Containing the Virus or Reviving the Economy? Evidence from Individual Expectations During the Covid-19 Epidemic

Keyang LI, Yu QIN, Jing WU, Jubo YAN
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

Hanming FANG, Long WANG, Yang YANG
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of the city of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We employ a set of differencein-differences (DID) estimations to disentangle the lockdown...
Keywords: Human Mobility, Lockdown, Social Distancing, 2019-nCoV, COVID-19, Disease Outbreak
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

A First Look at China’s Consumption after Coronavirus

Wenlan QIAN
With countries engaging in distancing and mobility-restriction measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, a central policy debate lies in the tradeoff between stringent public health interventions and the severe economic ramifications that come with those interventions…...
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, 2020, Pandemic

Economic Effects of Lockdown in China

Qin CHEN, Zhiguo HE, Chang-Tai HSIEH, Zheng Michael SONG
On January 23, 2020, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan (in Hubei Province). In subsequent days, similar measures were taken in other cities in Hubei and throughout China. This chapter documents several facts of the Chinese economy since the lockdown. The main findings are summariz...
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2020, Pandemic

COVID-19: Collective Learning from the East

Sumit AGARWAL, Bernard YEUNG, Zhiguo HE
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