Pandemnomics: The Pandemic's Lasting Economic Effects (eBook)

Dr. Bernur Acikgoz graduated from Ankara Finance Vocational High School in 1995, DEU Finance Department in 1999, DEU Financial Law (master) in 2001, and DEU Finance Department (Ph.D.) in 2006. She worked at King/'s College London, United Kingdom in 2000 and Harvard University, United States in 2006 as a visiting professor. In 2009-2010 she completed her post-doctorate degree in economics from Neuchatel University in Switzerland. She taught at Bern University in Switzerland during 2010-2011. In 2014 and 2015 she was a guest lecturer in France with LAMETA scholarship, in USA with Missouri University scholarship and in England with TUBITAK scholarship. Between 1996-2017 she worked at the Ministry of Finance and Celal Bayar University. Professor Açikgöz has books, articles, and papers on foreign direct investments, public economics, public debts, macroeconomics, economic growth, panel econometrics, experimental economics, and game theory. She is currently working at the Department of Public Finance at Izmir Katip Celebi University. In addition, she teaches at the Department of International Trade and Finance at Izmir University of Economics and at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland.

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This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In each chapter of the book, the effects of the pandemic on different economic and financial sectors are discussed.The book tackles many topics and issues that are of relevance in the post-pandemic world. Some of these issues are the effects of the pandemic on countries' budgets, tax systems, financial and economic policies, and management, in addition, the evaluation of the pandemic in terms of migration and refugees, the historic comparison of its effects with other pandemics, the social media reflections of the pandemic and the global governance discussions. The book also considers the effects of pandemic on the use of digital currencies and the effects of digitalization of employment and robot employment.