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Coronavirus disease 2019 and the global economy

Using daily data on the global coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) deaths, this paper investigates the corresponding effects on the global economic activity measured by the Baltic Exchange Dry Index (BDI). The empirical results based on a structural vector autoregression including crude oil prices (COP) suggest that a weekly increase of 1,000 in daily global Covid-19 deaths results in 10% of a cumulative reduction in BDI after one week and 22% of a cumulative reduction after three months. The effects of global Covid-19 deaths on COP are shown to be insignificant, where the oil price plunge of March 2020 mostly coincides with the corresponding OPEC disagreement.

Lead investigator:

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Affiliation:

Florida International University, Miami

Primary topic:

Recession & recovery

Region of data collection:

World

Status of data collection

Complete

Type of data being collected:

Publicly available

Unit of real-time data collection

Other

Start date

12/2019

End date

3/2020

Frequency

Daily

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