Coronavirus: how to model the economic impacts of a pandemic

Not long after the coronavirus COVID-19 grabbed news headlines, requests started coming to Cambridge Econometrics to model the economic impacts – so we quickly began looking into the possibilities.  We subsequently published our initial modelling results. The OECD had published estimates of impacts of the coronavirus on GDP. But how could we go about modelling this? Is … Continue reading Coronavirus: how to model the economic impacts of a pandemic