Pandemics 

(selected papers; a full list of publications is available in my CV)

Surveys:

Four New Horsemen of an Apocalypse? Solar Flares, Super-volcanoes, High-Mortality Pandemics, and Misaligned Artificial Intelligence. w/ Tomáš Uher. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (2022).

A Review of the Economic Consequences of Pre-COVID Epidemics. w/ Tomáš Uher. In: Skidmore (ed.). Handbook of the Economics of Natural Disasters (2022).

The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic: a retroactive examination of economic costs. w/ Sharlan Shields. Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper #591 (October, 2019).

Research:

Vaccination Decisions and Social Capital in Japan. w/ Toshihiro Okubo. Social Science and Medicine - Population Health (2025).

Mistrust and Missed Shots: Trust and COVID-19 Vaccination Decisions. w/ Amelia Blamey (2024). 

The Economic Impacts of a Pandemic: What Happened after SARS in 2003? w/ Nguyen Doan, Canh Phuc Nguyen, and Yasuyuki Sawada. In: Celbiş, Nijkamp, and Kourtit (eds.). Pandemic and the City (2023). 

The Japanese Textile Sector and the Pandemic Influenza of 1918-1920. w/ Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl. Journal of Regional Science (2023).

Pandemics and Economic Growth: Evidence from the 1968 H3N2 Influenza. w/ Quy Ta and Yothin Jinjarak. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (2022).

Lifeyears lost due to COVID-19 in 2020: A comparison across countries and with past disasters. w/ Nguyen Doan. Global Policy (2021).

The Economic Risk from COVID-19 in Pacific Island Countries: Very Few Infections but Lots of Pain. w/ Nguyen Doan and Tauisi Taupo. New Zealand Economic Papers (2022).

The economic risk of COVID-19 in developing countries: Where is it highest? w/ Nguyen Doan, Benno Ferrarini, Donghyun Park. In: Djankov and Panizza (Eds.) Developing Economies after COVID-19 (2020).

Measuring the Economic Risk of COVID-19 by Country. w/ Nguyen Doan, Benno Ferrarini, Donghyun Park. Global Policy (2020).

The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Developing Asia. w/ Abiad et al. Asian Development Bank Brief #128 (February 2020). 

Measuring the Economic Risk of Epidemics. w/ Nguyen Doan, Benno Ferrarini, and Donghyun Park. CESifo Working Paper 8016 (December 2019).