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most citedPandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

159 citations

5 papers

econ.GN2025★ 15 cited

Failing Banks

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner

Why do banks fail? We create a panel covering most commercial banks from 1863 through 2024 to study the history of failing banks in the United States. Failing banks are characteriz…

econ.GN2024★ 10 cited

The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper-)Inflation

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck +2

This paper studies how a large increase in the price level is transmitted to the real economy through firm balance sheets. Using newly digitized macro- and micro-level data from th…

econ.GN2022★ 159 cited

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner

We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on mortality and economic activity across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The combination of fast and strin…

cs.CV2022★ 25 cited

Digitizing Historical Balance Sheet Data: A Practitioner's Guide

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck

This paper discusses how to successfully digitize large-scale historical micro-data by augmenting optical character recognition (OCR) engines with pre- and post-processing methods.…

econ.GN2017★ 1 cited

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Utilities

Jaroslav Borovicka, John Stachurski

We study existence, uniqueness and computability of solutions for a class of discrete time recursive utilities models. By combining two streams of the recent literature on recursiv…