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epidemic hazard prediction, we use data from 2014-2019 to compute measures for exposure, vulnerability, and resilience of the … local economy to the shock of an epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts, we calculate the hazard (the … zoonotic source of a possible epidemic), the principal components of exposure and vulnerability to it, and of the economy …
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contacts drastically in the beginning, to almost eradicate the epidemic, and keeps them at around a third of pre … epidemic in the laissez faire, though at a prevalence of infections much higher than optimal. Impure altruistic behaviour …
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We contrast the canonical epidemiological SIR model due to Kermack and McKendrick (1927) with more tractable alternatives that offer similar degrees of "realism" and exibility. We provide results connecting the different models which can be exploited for calibration purposes. We use the expected...
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of policies on mortality and on the productive capacity of the country. Thanks to the Epstein-Zin specification of …
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In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...
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