This physicist-turned-economist is modelling the pandemic’s financial fallout

This physicist-turned-economist is modelling the pandemic’s financial fallout

Modelling the pandemic’s financial fallout

Physicist-turned-economist Arthur Turrell tells Nature how Bank of England researchers are fusing economics and epidemiology to study the complex effects of the pandemic. Two of the most pressing topics: the interaction between the macroeconomy and the progression of the disease, and how people’s economic choices might change the risk that they come into contact with the virus.

Nature | 5 min read