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EU’s Ordering of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses: Political Decision-Making under Uncertainty

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  • Werner Gleißner

    (Faculty of Business and Economics, Technical University Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
    Future Value Group AG, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany)

  • Florian Follert

    (Faculty of Management, Seeburg Castle University, 5201 Seekirchen am Wallersee, Austria)

  • Frank Daumann

    (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany)

  • Frank Leibbrand

    (Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung und Wirtschaftsberatung, 96135 Stegaurach, Germany)

Abstract

Worldwide, politicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs are operating under high uncertainty and incomplete information regarding the adequacy of measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems indisputable that only widespread and global immunity can bring normalization to social life. In this respect, the development of a vaccine was a milestone in pandemic control. However, within the EU, especially in Germany, the vaccination plan is increasingly faltering, and criticism is growing louder. This paper considers the EU’s political decision in general and the decisions of the German government to procure vaccine doses against the background of modern economics as a decision under uncertainty and critically analyzes the process.

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  • Werner Gleißner & Florian Follert & Frank Daumann & Frank Leibbrand, 2021. "EU’s Ordering of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses: Political Decision-Making under Uncertainty," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-12, February.
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