Coronavirus Pandemic and the Economy

Ryoichi Imai

Kyushu University

 

2022/12/12

 

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Lecture 1 - 2020

Lecture 2: Covid-19 and the Japanese Economy 2021 – 2021/12/20

Lecture 3: Covid-19 and the Japanese Economy 2022 -2022/12/12 NEW!

Lecture 3: Vaccination, Excess Mortality, and Economic Recovery – 2022/12/20 NEW!

 

My Research Works

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An Economic Analysis of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Explicit Medical Capacity Constraint – 2021/11/4

A Simple Model of Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic – 2020/8/29

2020: Coronavirus Pandemic and the Japanese Economy (J)

 

References

2022

Trade Statistics of Japan (Ministry of Finance)

Balance of payments (Ministry of Finance)

Summary of tax policies (財政に関する資料:財務省)

世界エネルギー統計

福岡県主要ダム貯水状況

日本経済新聞

原油価格の推移

天然ガス価格の推移

一人当たり名目GDPの推移

国際収支 報道発表資料

四半期統計・実質GDP成長率とその寄与度

世界軍事費ランキング

NHKニュース

米銀の日本化、米銀も預貸率は低下に(岡三証券

預貸率調査2022.3(東京商工リサーチ)

コロナ下のマネーサプライ(斎藤潤)

経済成長率の推移(2006〜2021年)(日本, アメリカ, イギリス, 中国)

 

Public Health

Effective Reproduction Number of the Coronavius

Our World in Data Coronavirus

Advisory Board against the Covid-19 Pandemic Japan

 

Economic Impacts

Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (JILPT)

Corona Virus Pandemic and Its Effects on the Japanese Economy (V-RESAS)

FRED Economic Data (Saint Louis FED)

White Paper on Tourism

MMT Symposium 2020

Shiller PE Ratio

Purchasing Power Parity

Real Effective Exchange Rates

Gross Domestic Product (Cabinet Office)

 

Electric Power Shortage

Nuclear Power Plants in Japan

 

Other

Fertility Rates of East Asia

The True Size of …

 

2021

Fujii and Nakata (2020-) Covid-19 and Output in Japan

So Kubota

Covid Economics

字経済」住宅価格にも 都心は上昇・均衡は低迷(日経新聞)

コロナ禍がもたらした住宅価格の二極化(日本経済研究センター)

国内銀行108行「20209月中間期単独決算 預貸率」調査(東京商工リサーチ)

10年後の財政「破綻確率」50% 将来世代の負担を考える(島澤諭)

ギャンブルを続ける日本経済〜10年後の国の「財政は破綻確率」は50%〜(島澤諭), shimazawa

「日経平均3万円は通過点」コロナ禍が続くほど株価は上がっていく(唐鎌大輔)

Manju Kowai: English Rakugo by Matthew Barbee

笹山茂(2003)「花見酒経済

 

2020

Facts

Japan Covid-19 Forecast Dashboard (Google)

Agoop (Softbank)

Tracking Coronavirus Pandemic (Sapporo Medical University)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing Database

Corona: Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture

COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (Google)

Mobility Report during the Corona Virus Pandemic (NTT docomo)

Covid-19 News by NHK

 

Economic Impacts

Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (JILPT)

 

Tracking Recovery from the Corona Virus Pandemic (Opportunity Insights) US Economy

A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown (Acemoglu et al)

 

Governments

Ministry of Foreign Affairs    English

Ministry of Justice    English

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare  English

Pandemic HQ (Cabinet Offce)

Covid-19 pandemic in Tokyo Prefecture

Covid-19 pandemic in Fukuoka Prefecture

Covid-19 pandemic in the US (Financial Times)

Go-to-Travel Project (Japan Tourism Agency)

Urban Population after Pandemic Emergency Declaration (NTT docomo)

 

The SIR Model

Makino sensei on Corona Pandemic

Makino sensei on Corona Pandemic 2

Differential Equation Applications for Virus Pandemic (Inaba)

Mathematical Model of Virus Infection (Akihiro Sato)

Herd Immunity (Wikipedia)

 

Practical Information for Foreigners

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

 

Other

Coronavirus Update (Live)

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads | Free to read

Coronavirus Spread in Japan (Toyo Keizai)

COVID-19 Japan

NHK: Corona Infection Monitoring Indices in Tokyo

IHME: COVID-19 Projections - Japan (US Whitehouse)

Self-Restraint Ratio (NHK)

 

 

Covid-19: Saving thousands of lives and trillions in livelihoods (McKinsey)

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University

Japan COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker

2020 coronavirus pandemic in Japan

Active Population density in Tokyo (NHK)

Coronavirus Pandemic at a Glance (Nikkei)

Dollar Shortage Test for Emerging Countries: Foreign Reserves Decline at Maximum Rate (Nikkei), English

Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate (BBC News)

 

Modelling Coronavirus Pandemic

English

Pandemic Shutdowns Work for the Economy, Too

‘Act fast and do whatever it takes’ to fight the COVID-19 crisis, say leading economists

Lessons from the Spanish Flu for the coronavirus’s potential effects on mortality and economic activity, (Robert J. Barro, José F. Ursua, and Joanna Weng)

Coronavirus meets the Great Influenza Pandemic (Robert J. Barro, José F. Ursua, and Joanna Weng)

The Macroeconomics of Epidemics (Eichenbaum, Rebelo, Trabandt)

Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes

Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?

How to Minimize the Attack Rate during Multiple Influenza Outbreaks in a Heterogeneous Population

WHAT WILL BE THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN THE US? ROUGH ESTIMATES OF DISEASE SCENARIOS (Atkeson)

A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown (Alvarez, Argente, and Lippi)

An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine (David W. Berger, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey)

Sequential Lifting of COVID-19 Interventions with Population Heterogeneity (Adriano A. Rampini)

Heterogeneous employment vulnerability and inequality in Japan (Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Sagiri Kitao, Minamo Mikoshiba)

Health versus wealth: On the distributional effects of controlling a pandemic (Jonathan Heathcote, Andrew Glover, Dirk Krueger, Víctor Ríos-Rull)

The labour market policy response to COVID-19 must save aggregate matching capital (Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay)

 

Notes on Coronacoma Economics (Krugman)

Compartmental Models in Epidemiology (Wikipedia)

National fiscal policy response to the Great Recession

Pandemic Readings from Economists (Mankiw)

 

SNS

Reasons why Japan has been successful

European watching the Corona Crisis in China

Weekly deaths in the US declines under the Corona Pandemic

Corona Infection is amazingly high in the foreign residents in Japan

Essential (E) and Non-essential (N) Sectors (Krugman)

Ian Werning

Spanish Flu (1918-1919)

Europeans watching Corona Pandemic in Asia

Timeline of the Corona Pandemic