Simulating the trade effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic
| Autor: | Robert B. Koopman, Eddy Bekkers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Economics and Econometrics
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak 050208 finance Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 05 social sciences International economics Trade cost Supply and demand Labour supply Accounting 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Pandemic Economics Scenario analysis 050207 economics Finance |
| Zdroj: | The World Economy. 45:445-467 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9701 0378-5920 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/twec.13063 |
| Popis: | The WTO Global Trade Model, a quantitative trade model, is employed to project the impact on the global economy of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the profound uncertainty about the duration of the pandemic and the containment measures, three scenarios are constructed, V-shaped, U-shaped and L-shaped recovery, corresponding with a duration of the pandemic of 3 months, 6 months and more than a year. The pandemic and containment measures are assumed to lead to a general reduction of labour supply, a rise in trade costs, and reductions in both demand and supply in sectors most affected by the containment measures. GDP and trade are projected to fall by, respectively, 5% and 11% in the V-shaped and L-shaped scenarios and trade by, respectively, 8% and 20%. The response of trade to the reduction in GDP, measured by the trade-to-GDP elasticity, is projected to rise as the crisis lasts longer. The reason is that a longer duration will lead to a larger drop in spending on durables which are highly tradable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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