Lukas Hensel 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Faculty Track Postdoctoral Research Fellow @GSM_PKU and visiting scholar @Oxford_CSAE. He/him.
Jun 23, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
My paper “Coronavirus perceptions and Economic Anxiety” (with @cp_roth, @johanneshermle, and @fetzert) is now available @restatjournal (bit.ly/37Ss94v). A big thank you to the referees and the editor for the quick turnaround. A summary of the key findings below 1/9. First, we find that the spread of #COVID19 in early 2020 led to economic anxieties. The first case in a country led to a spike in google searchers related to economic anxieties. Such search activities are historically strong predictors of GDP growth. 2/9
Mar 19, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
My partner and I traveled from London Heathrow to Beijing yesterday. Given the current #COVID19 situation, I thought that I would share my experience of what traveling to China is like at the moment (it might be a preview of what could come to Europe). 1/n Heathrow airport was quite busy. We wore facemasks but there were many people without any protection. However, there were also a lot of people wearing gloves, goggles, and protective suits. The close we got our gate, the higher the ratio of people with protective clothes. 2/n