eprintid: 10160494
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 699
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datestamp: 2023-05-18 12:13:02
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type: working_paper
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Lewis, Daniel
creators_name: Mertens, Karel
creators_name: Stock, James H
title: U.S. Economic Activity during the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F24
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abstract: 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.
date: 2020
publisher: SSRN
official_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3574419
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1975487
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3574732
lyricists_name: Lewis, Daniel
lyricists_id: DJLEW09
actors_name: Lewis, Daniel
actors_id: DJLEW09
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
series: NBER Working Paper w26954
number: w26954
place_of_pub: Rochester, NY, USA
issn: 1556-5068
citation:        Lewis, Daniel;    Mertens, Karel;    Stock, James H;      (2020)    U.S. Economic Activity during the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak.                    (NBER Working Paper w26954  w26954). SSRN: Rochester, NY, USA.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160494/1/WEI_Corona.pdf