COVID-19 shock and resilience

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This is basically my PhD dissertation, so let me just put a shortened abstract here:

This dissertation is an article-based thesis, that ties together four independent articles with underlying research between 2020-2025. They all analyse different aspects of the economy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This thesis analysis the layers of this economic resilience and adaptation, exploring the various levels of the economy and their interlinkages. The thesis contains four main chapters, each a published or presented study on its own, which cover both the microeconomic level impacts of the pandemic (employees and firms) and the macroeconomic level (nations and recovery). The first two chapters focus on Hungary, and employ primary data collection (surveys) before and during the pandemic, to highlight factors that have influenced resilience and performance of firms and employees during this trying time. The second two chapters have a more broad geographical focus. The third study focuses on the resilience of national competitiveness in relation to long-term government policy directions during the pandemic, exploiting the global IMD database. Meanwhile, the fourth study looks forward and explores possible recovery scenarios using macroeconomic modelling for the countries of the Visegrad region; and investigates what factors shape the pace and structure of a possible recovery.

While my dissertation is on its way to be submitted and once that is done will be available on Github - with all the version tracking since 2025 May... yay! - most of it is published already in articles and working papers.

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