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Fighting COVID-19:Performance of Countries in the First Half of 2020

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  • Roberto S. Mariano

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Suleyman Ozmucur

    (University of Pennsylvania)

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The new coronavirus COVID-19 started in Wuhan, China in November or December of 2019 and spread to the rest of the world in 2020 at varying speed. Some countries responded relatively well, and others responded relatively poorly. Therefore, it is necessary to measure the performance to learn from mistakes and prepare better for the next time, when or if this is over. This is the main objective of this paper. There are two health related and two economy related indicators used as performance indicators. These indicators are used both individually and as part of indexes that we propose in the paper. We also propose the use of cluster analysis for country groupings.

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  • Roberto S. Mariano & Suleyman Ozmucur, 2020. "Fighting COVID-19:Performance of Countries in the First Half of 2020," PIER Working Paper Archive 20-040, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
    • Handle: RePEc:pen:papers:20-040
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; Disaster Diamonds; Disaster Index; Principal Components; Cluster Analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • C00 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - General
    • C4 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics
    • E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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