... pandemic and responsible for many avoidable deaths in the countries they govern," Michael Bayerlein, a researcher on populism at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, said in a statement Thursday. ...

… Economists in Germany are also unconvinced. “If the EU were to decouple even partially from international supply networks, this would considerably worsen the standard of living for people inside the EU as well as for its trading partners, and...

Populist governments perform worse than non-populist governments in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. This applies, for example, to countries such as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and India. Excess mortality—the number of deaths...

… Our statistical results suggest that ties between Chinese provinces and their counterparts around the globe, such as U.S. states, helped secure commercial exports and donations of medical equipment. First, Chinese provinces seem to have...

During the peak phase of the corona pandemic, Chinese exports of critical medical goods such as protective masks went primarily to economic and political partners. Chinese companies were able to push through drastic price increases against...

... Cristoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, CEPR) talks to Tim Phillips about the findings in his recent Covid Economics paper: Corona politics: The cost of mismanaging pandemics Helios ...

... "An effective vaccine with few side effects changes everything," Gabriel Felbermayr told Reuters. An aggressive second wave of infections and a new partial lockdown to slow the spread of the disease have ...

... Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart and two colleagues, Sebastian Horn and Christoph Trebesch, from Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy, spent two years scrubbing previously untapped data sources ...

... Covid pandemic: Lessons from cross-country polling data Helios Herrera, Max Konradt, Guillermo Ordoñez, Christoph Trebesch 06 November 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has had major political consequences. ...