Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel and Cristopher Roth study how the arrival of the new coronavirus leads to an increase in economic anxieties both through inferred patterns around Google search activity and through a survey experiment in a representative sample from the US.
Online searches for recession and survivalism topics are increasing, a sign that a dramatic slowdown in growth is likely, write Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel, and Christopher Roth.
The rapid and global spread of the new coronavirus within just a few months is threatening to infect the global economy, new research by Lukas Hensel has found.
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