Economic sentiment during the COVID pandemic : Evidence from search behaviour in the EU

© 2020 The Authors.

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of economics and business. - 1978. - 115(2021) vom: 07. Mai, Seite 105970
1. Verfasser: van der Wielen, Wouter (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Barrios, Salvador
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of economics and business
Schlagworte:Journal Article COVID-19 Consumption Economic sentiment Employment Google Trends
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520 |a The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted an economic hardship unprecedented for the modern age. In this paper, we show that the health crisis and ensuing lockdown, came with an unseen shift in households' economic sentiment. First, using a European dataset of country-level and regional internet searches, we document a substantial increase in people's business cycle related searches in the months following the coronavirus outbreak. People's unemployment concerns jumped to levels well-above those during the Great Recession. Second, we observe a significant, coinciding slowdown in labour markets and consumption. Third, our analysis shows that the ensuing shift in sentiment was significantly more outspoken in those EU countries hit hardest in economic terms. Finally, we show that unprecedented fiscal policy actions, such as the short-time work schemes implemented or reformed at the onset of the COVID-crisis, however, have not eased economic sentiment 
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