Forecasting the Economic Consequences of COVID-19 Using a Futures Wheel

Colin Cannonier, Brad Childs, Howard Cochran, Lakisha Simmons, Marieta Velikova

Some Information on Creating a FuturesWheel

1. Futures Wheel. https://www.toolshero.com/decision-making/futures-wheel-jerome-glenn/

2. The Futures Wheel: Identifying the Consequences of a Change. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/futures-wheel.htm

3. Futures Wheel Template. https://online.visual-paradigm.com/diagrams/templates/futures-wheel/futures-wheel-template/

4. Futures Wheel Template. https://creately.com/diagram/example/jmu6vqxw4/Futures%20Wheel

5. Futures Wheel Examples. https://www.google.com/search?q=futures+wheel+examples&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwii6N__8PTtAhWqrVkKHUvRBPcQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1920&bih=938

Some Data Sets on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

1. Center for Disease Control (CDC) COVID Data Tracker: https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases (readily available)

2. Google COVID-19 Mobility Data: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ (readily available)

3. Google Trends Data: https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US (readily available)

4. Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html (readily available)

5. Downloadable Database: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

6. Miami Herald database on Lockdown Dates: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article241249651.html (readily available)

7. New York Times database: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data (readily available)

8. Our World in data: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus (readily available)

9. World Bank: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/universal-health-coverage/coronavirus/ (readily available)

10. Worldometer Database: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (readily available)

Some Other Coverage on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

1. BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/coronavirus

2. Federal Reserve

o Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta COVID-19 Resources & Events: https://www.frbatlanta.org/news/covid-19

o Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis COVID-19 Page: https://www.stlouisfed.org/covid-19

§ COVID-19 Economic Data Tracking: https://research.stlouisfed.org/dashboard/49765

§ COVID-19 Financial Data Tracking: https://research.stlouisfed.org/dashboard/49752

3. Economist.com Coverage of the CoronaVirus: https://www.economist.com/coronavirus-pandemic

4. International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Country Policy Responses to COVID-19: https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19

5. International Monetary Fund (IMF): https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19

6. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): https://www.paho.org/en/topics/coronavirus-infections/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-pandemic

7. United Nations (UN): https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus

8. World Health Organization (WHO): https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1

9. World Tourism Organization (WTO): https://www.unwto.org/tourism-covid-19

10. Euromonitor International. https://www.euromonitor.com/coronavirus

11. Bloomberg: