As COVID-19 spreads, financial institutions face medium-to-long-term consequences that will take time to understand.

Contributions are invited for a special issue of Annals of Actuarial Science (AAS) featuring research on managing the risk of mortality shocks. Examples of areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Direct effects on liabilities linked to mortality and longevity risks
- Capital market and insurance innovations for pandemic risk management
- Impact on the provision of, and demand for, healthcare
- Changes in economic activity, commodity and asset prices
- Increase in government debt and the effect on bond markets
- Changes in investor/policyholder behaviour
- Changes in regulation
- Preparing for the next pandemic.
The issue will be guest edited by Michel Dacorogna (University of Zurich), Runhuan Feng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Annamaria Olivieri (University of Parma).
Papers may be submitted from 1 January 2021 to 31 July 2021. The issue will appear in 2022, but all papers accepted for publication will be published as FirstView articles when produced.
For more information and guidance about writing for AAS go to bit.ly/2JWWRSm