Globalization and the Outbreak of COVID-19: An Empirical Analysis

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan (), Mehdi Feizi and Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni

JRFM, 2021, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the extension of globalization and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case fatality rate (CFR) calculated on 28 July 2020 in more than 150 countries. Our regression analyses show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed to higher levels of CFR. The positive association between the level of globalization of countries and their COVID-19 fatality rate remains robust, controlling for cross-country differences in economic development and demographics, health care costs, health care capacity, quality of governance and continental dummies.

Keywords: COVID-19; globalization; case fatality rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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