We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated … numerical experiments illustrating the structure of the optimal lockdown policy. In all our experiments the latter is … characterized by three distinct periods: the epidemic is first let freely evolve, then vigorously tamed, and finally a less …

The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global … of the lockdown measures. However, the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus packages to counteract the effects of the …

When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …

Data Bank and a government website on the state of the epidemic in Poland. The results indicated that the lockdown …. The main goal of the article is to study how the lockdown introduced in Poland affected the spread of the pandemic in the …