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With its contiguous nature, paired with the people's fear and anxiety, the Covid-19 outbreak has become a lethal combination, which despite the lower death ratio, has led to unanticipated financial and economic repercussions that have eventually disturbed the life of every single human being around the globe. In this very context, enterprises that belong to the fields of entertainment, tourism, lodging, dining, hotels, and restaurants have been found to be at a higher risk, as such operations are harshly affected during such unanticipated situations. Hence, based on this notion, the present study has been conducted, in order to precisely identify the effect on China's film and drama industry's stock returns, due to the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, based on the time-series data from China, spanning from the time period of 01-Jan-2020 to 15-Mar-2021, the quantile autoregressive distributed lag method (QARDL) method has been applied, as the preferred statistical technique for this study. The results have reported that there happens to be a negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the industry across all the considered quantiles, representing the bearish, normal, and bullish market conditions. Therefore, based on these findings, the government regulations' full compliance regarding social distancing and health assurance has been recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the multidimensional effects of COVID-19 on the economy via considering the individuals and multi-sectors such as individuals/households, tourism, travel and transportation sector, environment, globalization, trade, economy, and the response of the government to the pandemic and also the economic and financial conditions of the respondents. Gathering primary data of 1015 sample sizes from eleven countries (including three countries from the top-ten most affected COVID-19 countries), the descriptive and graphical analysis and pre and post COVID-19 comparison confirmed the real impact of the global pandemic. All the mentioned sectors and the education and individual/household, are negatively affected except the environment positively affected. Based on the findings, policy recommendations are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Suggesting a configurational perspective to governments in anti-COVID campaign. • Examining Moore's strategic action theory in a sample of 323 Chinese cities. • Configuring authorizing environment—operational capacity—public value attributes. • Proposing a taxonomy of managing public health emergency modes. • Social reassurance, proactive defence, decisive resiliency, and strengthened coercion modes. How do governments take strategic actions in weaving public health and safety nets to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? Embracing Moore's strategic action framework, this study investigates how municipal governments can configure authorizing environment—operational capacity—public value attributes to weave public health and safety nets, in order to prevent and control the public health and safety emergency. Leveraging fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) with a sample of 323 Chinese cities, we identify a distinctive taxonomy of four equally effective configurations of urban actions in blocking COVID-19 transmission: social reassurance , proactive defence , decisive resiliency , and strengthened coercion. Overall, this study provides a novel insight of public health and safety management into battles against COVID-19 in human society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]