Where did people die? An international assessment of a potentially positive relationship between economic development and the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks
| Thesis title in Czech: | Kde lidé umírali? Mezinárodní zhodnocení potenciálně pozitivního vztahu mezi ekonomickým rozvojem a rozšířením nákazy COVID-19 |
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| Thesis title in English: | Where did people die? An international assessment of a potentially positive relationship between economic development and the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks |
| Key words: | COVID-19, economic development |
| English key words: | COVID-19, economic development |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2021/2022 |
| Thesis type: | diploma thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES) |
| Supervisor: | doc. Paola Bertoli, M.A., M.Sc., D.Phil. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned by the advisor |
| Date of registration: | 20.07.2022 |
| Date of assignment: | 21.07.2022 |
| Date and time of defence: | 21.06.2023 09:00 |
| Venue of defence: | Opletalova, O109, AULA Michala Mejstříka č. 109 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 29.04.2023 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 21.06.2023 |
| Opponents: | Ing. Vilém Semerák, M.A., Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The thesis is meant to be an applied work aiming at investigation the relationship between the economic development of a country and the severity of the COVID-19 outbreaks. |
| References |
| Core references:
- Chang Dianna, Chang Xin, He Yu & Jui Keng Tan Kelvin, 2022, “The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries”, Scientific reports – Nature, 12:5888, pp.1-17. - Feldkircher Martin & Zeugner Stefan, 2015, “Bayesian Model Averaging Employing Fixed and Flexible Priors: The BMS Package for R”, Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 68, Issue 4, pp.1-37. - Mirahmadizadeh Alireza, Ghelichi‑Ghojogh Mousa, Vali Mohebat, Jokari Kimia, Ghaem Haleh, Hemmati Abdolrasool, Jafari Fatemeh, Dehghani Seyed Sina, Hassani Amir Hossein, Jafari Alireza & Rezaei Fatemeh, 2022, “Correlation between human development index and its components with COVID-19 indices: a global level ecologic study”, BMC Public Health, 22:1549, pp.1-8. - Pardhan Shahina & Drydakis Nick, 2021, “Associating the Change in New COVID-19 Cases to GDP per Capita in 38 European Countries in the First Wave of the Pandemic”, Frontier in Public Health, 8:582140, pp.1-8. - Stojkoski Viktor, Utkovski Zoran, Jolakoski Petar, Tevdovski Dragan & Kocarev Ljupcho, 2022, “Correlates of the country differences in the infection and mortality rates during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Bayesian model averaging”, Scientific reports – Nature, 12:7099, pp.1-11. - Toya Hideki, & Skidmore Mark, 2021, “A Cross-Country Analysis of the Determinants of Covid-19 Fatalities”, CESifo Working Papers, No. 9028, pp.1-12. |
| Preliminary scope of work |
| This paper aims to find out whether country determinants of development did act as positive factors of COVID-19 severity at the country level. Whether such a relationship should exist, this study then attempts to identify these country characteristics, and to estimate the magnitude of their effects on the response variable. Thus, three hypotheses are tested in this paper. First, this study tests whether direct components of development are positively associated with an increase in COVID-19 severity. Second, the potential role of demographic differences, such as the age structured of a population, is explored. Indeed, such predictors could act as intermediary variables between economic development and COVID-19 severity. Third, this paper also checks whether other additional factors can explain the variations of the response variable observed at the country level. |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| This paper aims to find out whether country determinants of development did act as positive factors of COVID-19 severity at the country level. Whether such a relationship should exist, this study then attempts to identify these country characteristics, and to estimate the magnitude of their effects on the response variable. Thus, three hypotheses are tested in this paper. First, this study tests whether direct components of development are positively associated with an increase in COVID-19 severity. Second, the potential role of demographic differences, such as the age structured of a population, is explored. Indeed, such predictors could act as intermediary variables between economic development and COVID-19 severity. Third, this paper also checks whether other additional factors can explain the variations of the response variable observed at the country level. |