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SUBMITTER: Fezzi C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7399598 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fezzi Carlo C Fanghella Valeria V
Environmental & resource economics 20200804 4
In response to the COVID-19 emergency, many countries have introduced a series of social-distancing measures including lockdowns and businesses' shutdowns, in an attempt to curb the spread of the infection. Accordingly, the pandemic has been generating unprecedented disruption on practically every aspect of society. This paper demonstrates that high-frequency electricity market data can be used to estimate the causal, short-run impacts of COVID-19 on the economy, providing information that is es ...[more]