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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Macroeconomic Aggregates of the European Union

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  • Đukić Aleksandar

    (High School of Catering, Trade and Tourism, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

  • Štaka Mirjana

    (Data d.o.o. East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

  • Drašković Dajana

    (Culture centre of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Abstract

Economic experts’ predictions of a slowdown in the EU’s global economy and economic growth in the year 2020 were based on various risks and uncertainties existing on a world scale, ranging from the US-China trade war, traditionally strained relations of the EU and the US on the one hand and the Russian Federation on the other, all the way to BREXIT and economic migration to developed EU countries. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated those forecasts, so that the entire EU is recording a historic decline in all macroeconomic aggregates. The beginning of the pandemic in the EU was accompanied by the complete border lockdown of the entire Union, which greatly affected the economies of the member states. The EU is experiencing a decline of both real and nominal GDP, declining incomes, employment decline and unemployment increase. This paper will investigate the impact of COVID-19 onto GDP, unemployment, and EU public debt. Correlation-regression analysis confirms the positive correlation between these variables and the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the economic crisis, a crisis of EU health systems, which requires huge economic investments. A more prominent economic recovery is hard to expect until the global pandemic ends. One thing is for certain, this economic crisis will continue in 2021, whereby a more significant recovery is expected only in the year 2022. Certainly, it will take years to make up for the economic losses caused by the pandemic.

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  • Đukić Aleksandar & Štaka Mirjana & Drašković Dajana, 2021. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Macroeconomic Aggregates of the European Union," Economics, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 91-108, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:vrs:econom:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:91-108:n:4
    DOI: 10.2478/eoik-2021-0023
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    Keywords

    COVID-19 pandemic; EU; EU GDP; EU macroeconomic aggregates; economic crisis;
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    JEL classification:

    • E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies

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