{"title":"Which Earnings Groups Have Been Most Affected by the COVID-19 Crisis?","authors":"Aaron Amburgey, S. Birinci","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.37","url":null,"abstract":"When the pandemic caused unemployment to skyrocket, the lowest earners were the hardest hit.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79795534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographic Dispersion in COVID-19 Death Rates across the United States","authors":"B. Ravikumar, G. Vandenbroucke","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.36","url":null,"abstract":"Geographic dispersion in the share of African Americans likely accounts for the dispersion of COVID-19-related deaths.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80519470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Trade Policy During COVID-19","authors":"Fernando Leibovici, Ana Maria Santacreu","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.35","url":null,"abstract":"Recent trade policy implemented to avoid shortages of essential medical equipment amid COVID-19 has been related to the country’s trade imbalances in these goods.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78582016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Can We Learn from the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 for COVID-19?","authors":"David C. Wheelock","doi":"10.20955/ES.2020.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/ES.2020.30","url":null,"abstract":"As the Spanish flu became more widespread and its dangers apparent, many cities sought to contain the virus by imposing restrictions on social and economic interactions.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73835346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Federal Reserve System International Facilities","authors":"Bruce Mizrach, Christopher J. Neely","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.29","url":null,"abstract":"Fed lending to foreign central banks for them to provide emergency lending aids the U.S. economy by stabilizing international financial markets.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80752695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: Comparing the Eighth Federal Reserve District and the U.S.","authors":"B. Ravikumar, G. Vandenbroucke","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.28","url":null,"abstract":"The St. Louis Fed’s District has a lower rate of COVID-19-related deaths than the overall U.S. rate.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77539979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Value of $600 Across States Hit Hardest by COVID-19","authors":"YiLi Chien, J. Bennett","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.26","url":null,"abstract":"The CARES act provides an extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits, but the purchasing power of those dollars varies across states, raising the question of whether the equal distribution of $600 across states is an equitable distribution.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77012609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fed Intervention in the To-Be-Announced Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities","authors":"Bruce Mizrach, Christopher J. Neely","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.19","url":null,"abstract":"All the announced MBS purchases are designed to provide liquidity and facilitate trading of agency MBS during a period of disruption associated with the coronavirus.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"2005 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91429499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lost Weeks of COVID-19 Testing in the United States: Part I","authors":"M. Peake, B. Ravikumar, G. Vandenbroucke","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.24","url":null,"abstract":"The weeks lost due to inaction in the U.S. during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in rationing of tests and a large number of confirmed cases.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73894246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central Bank Responses to COVID-19","authors":"J. Haas, Christopher J. Neely","doi":"10.20955/es.2020.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2020.23","url":null,"abstract":"The scope and speed of the international central bank policy response to COVID-19 has met or often exceeded that of the 2007-2009 crisis.","PeriodicalId":11402,"journal":{"name":"Economic Synopses","volume":"272 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76784068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}