Trade Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis : Evidence from a New Data Set (English)

This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid increase in trade policy activism in February and March 2020 in tandem with the rise in COVID-19 cases, but also uncovers extensive heterogeneity across countries...

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Evenett,Simon J.;

Fiorini,Matteo;

Fritz,Johannes;

Hoekman,Bernard M.;

Lukaszuk,Piotr;

Rocha,Nadia;

Ruta,Michele;

Santi,Filippo;

Shingal,Anirudh;
Document Date
2020/12/14
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9498
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2020/12/14
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Disclosed
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Trade Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis : Evidence from a New Data Set
Keywords
Trade Policy

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Evenett,Simon J.; Fiorini,Matteo; Fritz,Johannes; Hoekman,Bernard M.; Lukaszuk,Piotr; Rocha,Nadia; Ruta,Michele; Santi,Filippo; Shingal,Anirudh.

Trade Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis : Evidence from a New Data Set (English). COVID-19 (Coronavirus)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9498 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/342251607972979213

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