Wren-Lewis, Simon; Keogh-Brown, Marcus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
Little is known about the possible impact of an influenza pandemic on a nation's economy. We applied the UK …, allowing for school closures, would be short lived, constituting a loss of 3.35% and 0.58% of GDP in the first pandemic quarter … a few weeks, creating policy repercussions for influenza pandemic planning as the most severe economic impact is due to …