Blacking out
Author: Yvan Lengwiler, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel
Abstract
The partial shutdown of the economy following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the lack of measurements of economic activity that are available with a short lag and at high frequency. The consumption of electricity is a candidate for such a proxy.
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