Meeting Fora Call For Paper ICC-19BE

Covid-19 and its Impact on Business and Economy

  • The impact on financial markets
  • The actual and potential impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic upon SMEs
  • Bond markets – sovereign, agency, municipals, corporate
  • The outbreak and firm’s digitalization transformation
  • Global trade and the longer-term impact of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 – what will the tourism sector future be?
  • Impact of COVID-19 on education and the future of studying abroad
  • Financing along the supply chain: strengths and weaknesses and its future
  • Economic and financial lessons from history for the post-pandemic world
  • COVID-19 and the role of central banks, financial markets, and international institutions
  • COVID-19 and its Impact on economic factors, i.e. price stability, employment, economic growth
  • The future role of international organisations: WHO, IMF for example
  • Risk management
  • Economic activity (growth, cycles)
  • Unemployment
  • Inequality
  • Public finances
  • High, middle and low income countries
  • Bankruptcies
  • Investor sentiment
  • Changes to capital structure
  • Changes to payout policy
  • Changes to the commodity markets
  • Impact on emerging and growth economies
  • Workforce readiness and development
  • Innovations in supply chains to increase responsiveness
  • Sustainable operations and sharing and circular economies in a time of crisis
  • Managing perishable supply chains
  • Social response to crises and its impact on supply chain management
  • Innovation in the supply chain
  • New technologies in the supply chain
  • Purchasing and supplier coordination and relationships
  • Transportation and logistics
  • Responsiveness and resilience in supply chains
  • Supply chain agility
  • Local versus globalization of supply chains
  • Workforce readiness and development