COVID-19

How to mitigate the economic impacts of infectious diseases

A man wearing a protective face mask walks past a stock quotation board outside a brokerage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan November 2, 2020.

Microscopic infectious agents can have macroeconomic effects Image: REUTERS/Issei Kato

David E. Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard School of Public Health
Michael Kuhn
Co-Leader of the research group on population economics at the Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Klaus Prettner
Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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