Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233991 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Chemnitz Economic Papers No. 045
Publisher: 
Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Chemnitz
Abstract: 
How are economies in a modern age impacted by epidemics? In what ways is economiclife disrupted? How can pandemics be modeled? What can be done to mitigate and managethe danger? Does the threat of pandemics increase or decrease in the modern world? The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of these questions and the potential of complex systems science to provide answers. This article offers a broad overview of the history of pandemics, of established facts, and of models of infection diffusion, mitigation strategies, and economic impact. The example of the Covid-19 pandemic is used to illustrate the theoretical aspects, but the article also includes considerations concerning other historic epidemics and thedanger of more infectious and less controllable outbreaks in the future.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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