Pricing the global health risks of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Keywords
Coronavirus; COVID-19; Value of statistical life; VSL; Mortality; Morbidity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J17 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Value of Life; Foregone Income
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
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