Economics, Business and Management Sciences#

Economics, Business and Management Sciences#

Desheng Dash Wu, MAE, is a co-editor of the special issue on "Decision Support Systems on Data Analytics and Decision-Making Systems: Implications of the Global Outbreaks": Call for papers. Deadline for submission: 30 December 2020.

Desheng Dash Wu, MAE, is a co-editor of the special issue on "Global Systemic Risk and Resilience for novel Coronavirus and COVID-19” to be published in "Risk Analysis": Call for papers. Deadline for submission: 30 November, 2020.

Desheng Dash Wu, MAE, Hur kan supply chain effekterna av covid-19 hanteras? ("How can the supply chain effects of covid-19 be handled?") Supply Chain Effect. 2 (2020) 26–27. (in Swedish)

Klaus F. Zimmermann Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, has published three research articles on COVID-19 in issue 1/2021 and has presented the Kuznets Prize 2021 to a Chinese research team for an article published in issue 4/2020 of the Journal. For a report and a video of the public event, click here.

Klaus F. Zimmermann was co-organiser of the virtual conference on ‘The Economics of COVID-19‘. The conference was jointly organised by The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). The meeting provided a platform for economists to exchange ideas on the pressing economic issues arising during the global pandemic.

Klaus F. Zimmermann was also co-organiser of a Virtual Workshop on COVID-19 which took place on 23rd November 2020. The Workshop was hosted by the Central European University (CEU) and its CEU School of Public Policy (Vienna, Austria), and was organised by the Economics, Business and Management Sciences section of the Academia Europaea. The event was supported by the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Read the final event report.

Klaus F. Zimmermann leads the Global Labor Organization (GLO) Thematic Cluster Coronavirus. The cluster facilitates efforts of members of the GLO network to understand the challenges of the new virus and to support the development of strategies to manage it and to learn for future pandemics.

Klaus F. Zimmermann is coordinating the GLO Cluster on COVID-19, which facilitates efforts of members of the GLO network to understand the challenges of the new virus and to support the development of strategies to manage it and to learn for future pandemics. The GLO Cluster is concerned with activities like research papers, events, interviews, and media activities. Klaus F. Zimmermann MAE is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a global network of over 1,600 social scientists (many of them are MAEs) around the world in over 120 countries. Read more (Access to research papers.)

Klaus F. Zimmermann is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, the leading outlet in its field. The open access journal offers rapid evaluation of academic research on COVID-19.

The first published paper assesses the Chinese experience of social and economic factors behind the pandemic crisis and illustrates the China experience with the crisis, which can serve as a reference case for further studies on China and other countries in the world:
"Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China” by Qiu, Yun & Chen, Xi & Shi, Wei. Published online, forthcoming: Journal of Population Economics, Issue 4, 2020. Open access.
Read more (Access of the paper and author interview.)

Klaus F. Zimmermann has also been responsible for the publication of three articles related to COVID. These are:

• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
• Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Implications of COVID-19 labour market shocks for inequality in financial wellbeing