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Socio-Economic Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the US

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ENTROPY
卷 23, 期 6, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e23060673

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Covid-19; complex networks; resilience

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  1. Department of Defense, Network Science Division, Army Research Office [W911NF2010187]
  2. U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [W911NF2010187] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

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This paper proposed a dynamic cascade model to study the systemic risk posed by sector-level industries within the U.S. inter-industry network and investigated the effect of Covid-19 disruptions on the U.S. economy. By simulating the propagation of production shortages due to initial shocks, a critical resilience value in the network was observed, below which a catastrophic collapse occurred.
This paper proposes a dynamic cascade model to investigate the systemic risk posed by sector-level industries within the U.S. inter-industry network. We then use this model to study the effect of the disruptions presented by Covid-19 on the U.S. economy. We construct a weighted digraph G = (V,E,W) using the industry-by-industry total requirements table for 2018, provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). We impose an initial shock that disrupts the production capacity of one or more industries, and we calculate the propagation of production shortages with a modified Cobb-Douglas production function. For the Covid-19 case, we model the initial shock based on the loss of labor between March and April 2020 as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The industries within the network are assigned a resilience that determines the ability of an industry to absorb input losses, such that if the rate of input loss exceeds the resilience, the industry fails, and its outputs go to zero. We observed a critical resilience, such that, below this critical value, the network experienced a catastrophic cascade resulting in total network collapse. Lastly, we model the economic recovery from June 2020 through March 2021 using BLS data.

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