TY  - GEN
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A1  - Lewis, Daniel
A1  - Mertens, Karel
A1  - Stock, James H
PB  - SSRN
Y1  - 2020///
SN  - 1556-5068
TI  - U.S. Economic Activity during the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak
CY  - Rochester, NY, USA
AV  - public
N2  - This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic
developments associated with the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States. The WEI
index shows a strong and sudden decline in economic activity starting in the week ending March 21,
2020. In the most recent week ending March 28, the WEI indicates economic activity has fallen further
to -6.19% scaled to 4 quarter growth in GDP.
ID  - discovery10160494
UR  - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3574419
T3  - NBER Working Paper w26954
ER  -