Boucekkine, Raouf; Laffargue, Jean‐Pierre - 2007
We develop a tractable general theory for the study of the economic and demographic impact of epidemics. In particular … period exogenous shocks to the survival rates. We identify three kinds of epidemics depending on how the epidemic shock …-period epidemic shock has no permanent effect on income distribution, it can perfectly alter it in the short and medium run. We then …
