Effectiveness of corona lockdowns: Homburg's flawed analysis

This is a comment on Homburg (2020) who claimed that lockdowns were superfluous and ineffective. We demonstrate major flaws: Homburg's data base is not suitable to support his claim and his econometric approach does not allow for an analysis of a lockdown's incremental effect.

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Felder, Stefan ; Robra, Bernt-Peter
Publisher:	Basel : University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
Subject:	Corona \| SARS-CoV-2 \| Covid-19 \| Lockdown

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Series:	WWZ Working Paper ; 2020/08
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.5451/unibas-ep76797 [DOI] 1702663000 [GVK] hdl:10419/240417 [Handle] RePEc:bsl:wpaper:2020/08 [RePEc]
Classification:	I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Source:	EconStor

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