Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 
Author-Name: Paresh Kumar Narayan
Author-Name: Bernard Njindan Iyke
Author-Name: Susan Sunila Sharma
Author-Email:  pareshkumar.narayan@monash.edu
Author-Workplace-Name:  Monash University, Deakin University
Title: New Measures of the COVID-19 Pandemic - A New Time-Series Dataset
Abstract:  The multitude of papers exploring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last 12 months has motivated us to develop new, alternative measures of COVID-19. One limitation of current research has been the lack of robustness in quantifying the effects of the pandemic. We use a novel approach, word searches from popular newspaper articles, to capture key variants of proxies for the pandemic. We thus construct six different indices relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a COVID index, a medical index, a vaccine index, a travel index, an uncertainty index, and an aggregate COVID-19 sentiment index.
Classification-JEL:  I10
Keywords:  index,pandemic,covid-19
Journal:  Asian Economics Letters
Pages: 1-13
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year:  2021
DOI:  2021/10/06
File-URL:  https://a-e-l.scholasticahq.com/api/v1/articles/23491-new-measures-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-new-time-series-dataset.pdf
File-Format:  Application/pdf
Handle:  RePEc:ayb:jrnael:35