We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …

This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …

while minimizing the negative effects of lockdown strategies on businesses and children …

-triggered lockdown that has hampered people's physical interactions hence the ability to collect, process, and transmit soft information …. Exploiting the cross- sectional and time-series variations of lockdown, we investigate how the difficulty to use soft information … show that lockdown reduces fund investment in proximate stocks and generates a portfolio rebalancing toward distant stocks …

districts with the strictest lockdown rules. We find similarly large increases in cybercrime complaints. Interestingly, rape and … important role in the reporting and incidence of domestic violence during the lockdown …

epidemic. First, we show that MSAs with less pre-virus employment in work-from-home jobs experienced smaller declines in the …

We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by …