Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months … while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …

In this study, we examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global economic activity, the stock market, and the … and negatively impact all the endogenous variables such as Baltic dry index (BDI), MSCI world index (MSCI), and MSCI world … comparatively more affected by COVID-19 cases. The findings imply that the stock markets are more sensitive to the COVID-19 pandemic …

governments in many countries. We show that a lack of preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic resulted from four major types of … they were written. Third, it wasn’t clear that authorities had considered ex ante the effects of pandemic policies on … health and economic factors in a pandemic and how appropriate “lockdown”, income transfer, and loan policies could be …

economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed … for ongoing implementations of pre-pandemic plans. These three areas are important in and of themselves, as well as for … setting the groundwork for pandemic stress tests and wargames. …

pandemic planning. …