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Further development of the IT application for COVID-19 economic impact assessment and targeting of mitigation measures and related activities

Grant number: LSVJS20603

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $47,285.49

  • Funder

    Estonian Research Council

  • Principal Investigator

    Unspecified Andres Võrk

  • Research Location

    Estonia

  • Lead Research Institution

    University of Tartu, Department of Social Sciences, Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Economic impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The project uses publicly available data on companies and their fields of activity to characterize the economic activities of companies, their importance for the state budget and for the county. The economic indicators of enterprises are linked to the data of enterprises that provided crisis measures and the economic indicators of enterprises that received and did not receive support measures are compared before and after the spring corona crisis. The project will develop an analysis environment using github, R and Shiny software, where staff from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Finance can analyze which companies are supported by various economic measures during the COVID-19 crisis and what the potential impact has been. The project will create an automated process