Iverson, Terrence; Barbier, Edward - In: Economies 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-15
We examine the effectiveness of sub-national actions to control a novel disease, such as COVID-19, in the absence of … national policy. Evidence shows that countries where sub-national governments have undertaken unilateral social distancing … disease. We explore analytically whether agreement on a common social distancing policy among sub-national governments, i …