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A Method to Estimate the Economic Consequences of COVID-19

In: Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Big Data Economy and Information Management (BDEIM 2022)

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  • Wenrui Zhang

    (HSE University, Faculty of Economic Sciences)

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The study proposes an instructive economic consequences estimation method to calculate the economic losses of COVID-19 on the global economy and some countries in 2020 and 2021. The economic consequences do not refer to the impact, but to the result despite the efforts of governments to control it. There are two parts: the actual economic consequences are reflected in GDP falling short of expectations, and the potential economic consequences are reflected in the value of the years of life lost. According to calculations, COVID-19 caused $3.162 trillion in actual losses and $2.005 trillion in potential losses on a global scale in 2020 and 2021, totaling $5.168 trillion. Combining the two losses, COVID-19 caused $6.319 trillion in global losses in 2020, but in 2021 due to economic recovery and so on, the global economy was backfilled with $1.151 trillion. The estimation method can be generalized to other epidemics. Several schemes are also proposed that can help improve estimation accuracy.

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  • Wenrui Zhang, 2023. "A Method to Estimate the Economic Consequences of COVID-19," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, in: Seifedine Kadry & Yingchen Yan & Junjie Xia (ed.), Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Big Data Economy and Information Management (BDEIM 2022), pages 149-155, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6463-124-1_18
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-124-1_18
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