Recoveries After Pandemics : The Role of Policies and Structural Features /

To shed light on the possible scarring effects from Covid-19, this paper studies the economic effects of five past pandemics using local projections on a sample of fifty-five countries over 1990-2019. The findings reveal that pandemics have detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, po...

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Auteur principal: Cuesta Aguirre, Juan Pablo
Autres auteurs: Hannan, Swarnali
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/181
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