 Covid-19 and Unemployment: Evidence from Puerto Rico Using Bayesian Analyses with High-Frequency DataToledo Wilfredo ()
Economics and Business, 2021, vol. 35, issue 1, 174-189 Abstract: The paper aims at determining the relationship between the Covid-19 contagion level and the state of the economy using high-frequency data from Puerto Rico. In order to achieve the aim set, the direction of the causality relationship between the numbers of infected persons and the unemployment rate was determined. Furthermore, various Bayesian statistical models were estimated. The analysis results imply that the unemployment rate responds moderately to the Covid-19 contagion level itself and not the other way around. The 95 % credible interval for the elasticity coefficient of the unemployment rate relative to the virus is estimated as [0.0140–0.1448]. Evidence also shows that at the beginning of 2021, most of the fluctuations in the unemployment rate were explained directly by the Covid-19 perturbations. Hence, no evidence was found that economic activity promoted the virus spread in the analysed economy. Keywords: Bayesian Estimation; Covid-19; Economic Activity; MIDAS Estimation; Puerto Rico (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:ecobus:v:35:y:2021:i:1:p:174-189:n:12 DOI: 10.2478/eb-2021-0012 Access Statistics for this article Economics and Business is currently edited by Remigijs Počs More articles in Economics and Business from Sciendo |
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