Electricity Demand as a High-Frequency Economic Indicator: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Hurricane Harvey

Electricity is used by all businesses in the United States. During quickly moving economic shocks—for example, a pandemic or natural disaster—changes in electricity consumption can provide insight to policymakers before traditional survey-based metrics, which can lag weeks or months behind economic conditions and typically only show a snapshot of when the survey was conducted.

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Tracking the Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Mitigation Policies in Europe and the United States

IMF Working Papers ◽

10.5089/9781513549644.001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (125) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sophia Chen ◽

Deniz Igan ◽

Nicola Pierri ◽

Andrea Presbitero

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Impact ◽

High Frequency ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Economic Losses ◽

Trust Building ◽

Robust Evidence ◽

Pharmaceutical Interventions ◽

Mitigation Policies

We use high-frequency indicators to analyze the economic impact of COVID-19 in Europe and the United States during the early phase of the pandemic. We document that European countries and U.S. states that experienced larger outbreaks also suffered larger economic losses. We also find that the heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 is mostly captured by observed changes in people’s mobility, while, so far, there is no robust evidence supporting additional impact from the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions. The deterioration of economic conditions preceded the introduction of these policies and a gradual recovery also started before formal reopening, highlighting the importance of voluntary social distancing, communication, and trust-building measures.

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The Dynamic Impact Of The Demand And Supply Constraints On U.S. Trade With African Countries: A Case Study Of Selected Countries

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v22i2.1438 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Nkanta Frank Ekanem

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Font Size ◽

Dynamic Impact ◽

African Countries ◽

Demand And Supply ◽

Marginal Propensity ◽

Level 1

Although we conclude that the countries in the sample have a high marginal propensity to import, generally significantly greater than unity, and a very low marginal propensity to export, we can never claim to know why there has been so little trade between the United States and Africa. For that reason we must avoid making any general conclusion, even for countries with identical economic conditions.

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Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v7i1.178 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 33-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Qualitative Research ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Social Relations ◽

The United States ◽

Research Strategy ◽

The Future ◽

Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

Scottish Archaeological Journal ◽

10.3366/saj.2014.0054 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36-37 (1) ◽

pp. 163-183

Author(s):

Paul Taylor

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Context ◽

Moral Education ◽

The United States ◽

Representative Case ◽

National Museums ◽

The Individual ◽

The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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