Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.Martínez, Ricardo2022-08-252022-08-252022-11Economic Modelling 116 (2022) 10598310.1016/j.econmod.2022.105983http://hdl.handle.net/10433/14263Identificador de proyecto: PID2020-115011GB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; PID2020-114309GB-I00 (funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033); Junta de Andalucía through grants P18-FR- 2933 and A-SEJ-14-UGR20.During a pandemic, each country (or region) is characterized by a status matrix indicating its positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths. A pandemic performance indicator is a real-valued mapping from the set of status matrices to the set of non-negative real numbers, whereby lower values stand for better performance. We show that four axioms together characterize a family of indicators arising from a weighted average of the incidence rate, morbidity rate and mortality rate. We use these indicators to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 in major countries worldwide.application/pdfenAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/PandemicIncidenceHospitalizationsDeathsAxiomsjournal articleopen access