Where the provision of healthcare services involves undertakings (entities engaged in the provision of goods and/or services on a market) these are subject to the EU state aid rules. State aid questions are raised in particular regarding the compensation for public service provision, which may...

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...

The ability of Google Trends data to forecast the number of new daily cases and deaths of COVID-19 is examined using a dataset of 158 countries. The analysis includes the computations of lag correlations between confirmed cases and Google data, Granger causality tests, and an out-of-sample...

Securing access to effective antimicrobials is one of the greatest challenges today. Until now, efforts to address this issue have been isolated and uncoordinated, with little focus on sustainable and international solutions. Global collective action is necessary to improve access to life-saving...

The situation with the spread of the coronavirus has been recently developing in different directions. In a number of countries (the EU including), the epidemiological situation improved due to mass vaccination of the population, and so the containment measures were eased. Other countries,...

The situation with the coronavirus around the world remains rather complicated during February. This being said, many countries (especially in the EU) are on the cusp of the third wave of the pandemic in the second half of February due to new strains. Many governments extended or even tightened...

With due regard for the ongoing dire situation with the spread of the coronavirus in December 2020 and early 2021, many countries took advantage of the Christmas and New Year holidays to intensify their efforts aimed at slowing down the pandemic. In Russia, alongside continuing flexible...

This Article coins and explains the phenomena of IP nationalism. Just as some nations engage in vaccine nationalism by hoarding limited COVID vaccines, so, too, some nations are hoarding critical knowledge and technology by resisting modification of usual IP rules during the pandemic, such as a...

The world is witnessing a rather dire situation in terms of the spread of the coronavirus, however in the second half of January 2021 positive trends were evident: many hard hit by the coronavirus countries have demonstrated either stabilization or gradual decline in the recorded daily new...

Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and nonpharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics, however, produce economic, social, and medical costs. The...