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COVID-19: Stock Market Reactions
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COVID-19: Stock Market Reactions

No previous infectious disease outbreak, including the Spanish flu, has impacted the stock market as powerfully as the Covid-19 pandemic. Steven Davis and his co-authors use text-based analysis of newspaper reports back to 1900 to track stock market volatility.

Does culture affect economic outcomes
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Does culture affect economic outcomes?

Paola Sapienza argues that immigrants are particularly good proof of certain cultural aspects, because they may live in economic conditions that are very different from their country of origin.