Abstract
This paper highlights the enormous economic and social impact of COVID-19 with respect to articles that have either prognosticated such a large-scale event, and its economic consequences, or have assessed the impacts of other epidemics and pandemics. A consideration of possible impacts of COVID-19 on financial markets and institutions, either directly or indirectly, is briefly outlined by drawing on a variety of literatures. A consideration of the characteristics of COVID-19, along with what research suggests have been the impacts of other past events that in some ways roughly parallel COVID-19, points toward avenues of future investigation.
Keywords
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Pandemic2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Variety (cybernetics)Scale (ratio)Event (particle physics)EconomicsEconomic impact analysisPolitical scienceDevelopment economicsGeographyVirologyMedicine
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John W. Goodell
(2020).
COVID-19 and finance: Agendas for future research.
Finance research letters
, 35
, 101512-101512.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101512
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- DOI
- 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101512
- PMID
- 32562472
- PMCID
- PMC7152896