Pandemics are only possible because of international travel. But ? perhaps surprisingly ? in the absence of social distancing a more globalised country will not necessarily suffer a worse outbreak. Pol Antras (Harvard), Stephen J. Redding (Princeton) and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton) set out their new framework to study the interaction between globalisation and pandemics.

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30 September 2020

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LSE Covid-19 blog

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/09/30/how-do-globalisation-and-pandemics-interact-surprising-insights-from-a-new-model/

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