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What do economic models say about Covid-19?

Initiative Matters: In the model’s general pandemic simulations, roughly half the 20 countries had a tougher time than China.

Bryce Wilkinson
Sun, 22 Mar 2020

No one doubts the economic costs of lost jobs and income from Covid-19 will be substantial in the short run. But what can we know about the likely magnitude of those costs?

The virus is clearly highly contagious. Guesses about the proportion of a population likely to be infected if nothing is

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Bryce Wilkinson
Sun, 22 Mar 2020
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