 Globalization and Disease: The Case of SARSJong-Wha Lee and Warwick McKibbin Asian Economic Papers, 2004, vol. 3, issue 1, 113-131 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the global economic impacts of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as well as to provide a more comprehensive approach to estimating the global consequences of major disease outbreaks. Our empirical estimates of the economic effects of the SARS epidemic are based on a global model called the G-Cubed (Asia Pacific) model. Most previous studies on the economic effects of epidemics focus on the disease-associated medical costs or forgone incomes resulting from disease-related morbidity and mortality, but the most significant real costs of SARS have been generated by changes in spending behavior by households and firms in affected countries. This study estimates the cost of the SARS outbreak by focusing on the impacts on consumption and investment behavior through changes in the cost and risk of doing business. Through increased economic interdependence, these changes in behavior have wide-ranging general equilibrium consequences for the world economy that can lead to economic losses well in excess of the traditional estimates of the cost of disease. Copyright (c) 2004 Center for International Development and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Date: 2004 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tpr:asiaec:v:3:y:2004:i:1:p:113-131 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Asian Economic Papers is currently edited by Wing Thye Woo, Sungbae An, Fukunari Kimura and Ming Lu More articles in Asian Economic Papers from MIT Press |
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