Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Université Paris I Dauphine
Course Title:
Economics of Pandemics and Extreme Events
Course Number:
OIECOY11
Course Description:
This course focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how an unprecedented crisis of this magnitude has impacted the global economy. The course highlights the major macro-economic implications of this global health crisis using common economic modeling frameworks, and analyzes the fiscal, monetary and global aid responses to the pandemic. The course also explores how the pandemic has exacerbated poverty and widened inequalities, especially income and gender inequality, and examines the impacts of COVID-19 on the labor market and the future of jobs. A special focus is given to the health economics of the pandemics and the economics of vaccines production and distribution. The course concludes with potential economic lessons to be learned from the pandemic to tackle the forthcoming risks, namely increased global conflicts and the climate crisis.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ECON ----
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