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Modern pandemics : recession and recovery

Ma, Chang; Rogers, John H.; Zhou, Sili - 2020

We examine the immediate effects and bounce-back from six modern health crises: 1968 Flu, SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), and Zika (2016). Time-series models for a large cross-section of countries indicate that real GDP growth falls by around three percentage points in...

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Global health care infrastructure and Africa in times of Covid-19 : insights for sustainable development and future pandemics

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2020

analysis is provided to showcase which regions are leading in the health facilities in the world in general and Africa in …

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Health vulnerability versus economic resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic : global evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020

The purpose of this study is to understand how countries have leveraged on their economic resilience to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is on a global sample of 150 countries divided into four main regions, namely: Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, America and Europe. The study...

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Polarized politics of pandemic response and the Covid-19 connectedness across the U.S. states

Akovalı, Umut; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2020

This paper investigates the state-level differences in government and community responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to different growth trajectories of Covid-19 cases and their connectedness across the U.S. states. Our regression analysis shows that higher growth trajectories are...

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When the Contagion Effect Went Live : The First Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Esposito, Lorenzo; Mastromatteo, Giuseppe - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed world history and sparked a huge debate among social scientists. In this work, we …

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Can Innovation Save Us? Understanding the Role of Innovation in Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic in ASEAN-5 Economies

Layos, Joshua; Peña, Paul John - 2020

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raises the question of whether innovation can save humanity. Indeed, as it … levels of innovation remain high on the world rankings on new cases and deaths while countries considered relatively lower in … innovation are not. We test the relationship between innovation systems and the ability of its pre-epidemic state to address the …

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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic

Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022

Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...

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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024

In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and calibrate a health economic model based on principles...

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Will Vaccination End the Pandemic?

Vincentio, Owens; Khusanov, Javokhir - 2021

The world has suffered from the coronavirus pandemic that started over a year ago, where vaccinations have only just … started around seven months ago. This study aims to determine whether vaccination can end the coronavirus pandemic based on …

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Stock Markets under the Global Pandemic : Evidence from Tunisia during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ben Ayed, Wassim - 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of stock returns for all companies listed on the Tunis Stock Exchange. More specifically, we analyse the impact of various factors on stock market outcomes. These factors are (1) the daily growth in confirmed...

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