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On the Optimal 'Lockdown' During an Epidemic

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2020

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …

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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021

This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …

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Disease eradication : private versus public vaccination

Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - In: The American economic review 87 (1997) 1, pp. 222-230

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Cigarette consumption in Spain : empirical evidence and implications for public health policy

Valdés, Benigno - In: Applied economics 25 (1993) 2, pp. 149-156

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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases : State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward

Ruijter, Anniek de - 2020

In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for collective action triggered by the corona virus pandemic. In the face of such a crisis, we argue that the joint procurement, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a...

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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off...

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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Crowdsourcing city government : using tournaments to improve inspection accuracy

Glaeser, Edward L.; Hillis, Andrew; Kominers, Scott Duke; … - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 114-118

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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Competion through commissions and kickbacks

Inderst, Roman; Ottaviani, Marco - In: The American economic review 102 (2012) 2, pp. 780-809

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