5 articles in this issue
Maria Antonia Escobar
The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 contingency cannot be denied. Many authors have studied the effects of the sanitary emergency on labor force and the demand and supply of goods and services. This paper aims to understand the consequences of th... see more
Pablo de la Vega, Leonardo Gasparini
We estimate the role of teleworking as a mitigator of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic shock on the Argentine labor market. To that aim, we analyze the link between occupational-level teleworking potential scores, estimated from three different surveys... see more
Pablo Andrés Estrada Barreto, Juan Sebastián Hincapié Acosta
In this paper we show the results of an investigation into changes in the performance of EAFIT University students during the two semesters of 2020 compared with statistically similar cohorts from 2019. We used the Differencein-Difference method and find ... see more
Gover Barja
People’s mobility behavior and self-correcting economic forces are shown to be key variables in explaining the observed contraction and recovery of the Bolivian economy during Covid’s first wave. ARMAX models are used to explain the growth rate of the mon... see more
Camilo Andrés Lozada González, John Mauro Perdomo Munévar, Andrés Felipe Torres Pinzón
Forecasting has allowed the economic discipline to gain power and social relevance, although it has also exposed it to public discredit. In the uncertainty that has shaped COVID-19, the determinants of Colombian annual economic growth forecasts for the ye... see more