Tracking GDP in real-time using electricity market data: insights from the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe

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Tác giả: Valeria Fanghella, Carlo Fezzi

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 327.124 International relations

Thông tin xuất bản: 2020

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Bộ sưu tập: Metadata

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This paper develops a methodology for tracking in real time the impact of shocks (such as natural disasters, financial crises or pandemics) on gross domestic product (GDP) by analyzing high-frequency electricity market data. As an illustration, we estimate the GDP loss caused by COVID-19 in twelve European countries during the first wave of the pandemic. Our results are almost indistinguishable from the official statistics of the recession during the first two quarters of 2020 (correlation coefficient of 0.98) and are validated by several robustness tests. However, they are also more chronologically disaggregated and up-to-date than standard macroeconomic indicators and, therefore, can provide crucial and timely information for policy evaluation. Our results show that delaying intervention and pursuing 'herd immunity' have not been successful strategies so far, since they increased both economic disruption and mortality. We also find that coordinating policies internationally is fundamental for minimizing spillover effects from NPIs across countries.
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