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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title “Long GFC”? The global financial crisis, health care, and COVID‐19 deaths
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Antonio Moreno
  • Steven Ongena
  • Alexia Ventula Veghazy
  • Alexander Wagner
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Economic Inquiry
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0095-2583
Volume 62
Number 2
Page Range 865 - 891
Date 2024
Abstract Text Do financial crises affect long‐term public health? To answer this question, we examined the relationship between the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the 2020–2022 COVID‐19 pandemic. Specifically, we examined the relationship between the financial losses derived from the GFC, and the health outcomes associated with the first wave of the pandemic. European countries that were more affected by the financial crisis had more deaths relative to coronavirus cases. An analogous relationship emerged across Spanish provinces and US states. Part of the transmission from finances to health outcomes appears to have occurred through cross‐sectional differences in health care facilities.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/ecin.13194
Other Identification Number merlin-id:24244
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Keywords COVID‐19, curative beds, death ratio, global financial crisis (GFC), local sovereign debt