__Highlights of my work and anecdotes__

__November 18, 2020:__ Hosted by the Central European University (CEU) and its CEU School of Public Policy (Vienna/Austria), the AE Section “Economics, Business and Management Sciences” that I am chairing holds a virtual Workshop on COVID-19 on November 23, 2020. [Program and further details:|https://glabor.org/november-23-2020-vienna-covid-19-virtual-workshop-of-the-academia-europaea-ae-section-economics-business-and-management-sciences-hosted-by-the-central-european-university-ceu] 

__May 21, 2020:__ Following AE request for information about activities about COVID-19 for posting on the AE website, here are some:

__1. Published paper OPEN ACCESS (see links below):__

MAE Klaus F. Zimmermann, Gokhan Karabulut, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin and Asli Cansin Doker (2020), “[Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic|http://www.klausfzimmermann.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020-200429-Coronavirus-and-Globalization-PreV.pdf]“, The World Economy, Vol. 43, [forthcoming|https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/twec.12969], doi:10.1111/twec.12969.

__2. Co-organizer of virtual conference on COVID-19.__

Third IESR-GLO Joint Conference on “The Economics of Covit-19”. Virtual event. [MORE INFO.|https://glabor.org/call-for-papers-virtual-iesr-glo-conference-on-the-economics-of-covid-19-with-daron-acemoglu-charles-manski]
MAE Klaus F. Zimmermann is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a global network of over 1,600 social scientists (many of them are MAEs) around the world in over 120 countries. The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University, China, is the co-organizing institution. The event is virtual on June 5-7, 2020.  Keynote addresses by Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Nobel Prize Laureat Charles Manski (Northwestern University). Open paper submissions by May 24.

__3. Coordinator of the COVID-19 Cluster of the Global Labor Organization (GLO)__

MAE Klaus F. Zimmermann is the President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a global network of over 1,600 social scientists (many of them are MAEs) around the world in over 120 countries. He is coordinating the GLO Cluster on COVID-19, which consists of activities like research papers, events, interviews, and media activities. [MORE DETAILS|https://glabor.org/cluster/thematic/coronavirus] and access to research papers.

__4. Publishing research on COVID-19__

MAE Klaus F. Zimmermann is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, the leading outlet in its field. It has established an express evaluation of academic research on COVID-19 and invites submissions for the regular issues. The first published paper is evaluating the China experience with the crisis, which can serve as a reference case for further studies on China and other countries in the world. 
"Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China” by Qiu, Yun & Chen, Xi & Shi, Wei. Published online, forthcoming: Journal of Population Economics, Issue 4, 2020. OPEN ACCESS. [MORE DETAILS|https://glabor.org/revealing-the-sources-of-the-chinese-success-story-in-the-anti-corona-fight-january-february-2020-paper-forthcoming-in-the-journal-of-population-economics], access of the paper and author interview.


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