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Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing: Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2020
This paper considers a modification of the standard Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model of epidemic that allows for different degrees of compulsory as well as voluntary social distancing. It is shown that the fraction of population that self-isolates varies with the perceived probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208008
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Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing : Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries
Chudik, Alexander - 2020
This paper considers a modification of the standard Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model of epidemic that allows for different degrees of compulsory as well as voluntary social distancing. It is shown that the fraction of population that self-isolates varies with the perceived probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835654
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Vaccination Decisions and Social Capital in Japan
Okubo, Toshihiro; Noy, Ilan - 2024
The COVID-19 vaccines played a pivotal role in safeguarding populations. Yet, vaccine hesitancy remained a significant … barrier to increasing coverage rates, as many high-income countries faced prolonged vaccine refusal campaigns. In Japan …, vaccine doses were administered under a reservation system accessible via a website and by phone. Achieving a high vaccination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211267
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikolaos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227678
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Right and Yet Wrong: A Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Germany's Covid-19 Containment Policy
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020
In order to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269516
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On the Optimal "Lockdown" during an Epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208005
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The Challenge of Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 Interventions – Toward an Integrated Economic and Epidemiological Approach
Dorn, Florian; Lange, Berit; Braml, Martin; Gstrein, David - 2022
and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470343
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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration
Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - 2020
We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions introduced in Italy to mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a representative sample of Italian residents (N=894), we find that respondents who are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207947
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The Effect of Social Distancing Measures on the Demand for Intensive Care: Evidence on COVID-19 in Scandinavia
Juranek, Steffen; Zoutman, Floris - 2020
Understanding the effectiveness of social distancing on the spread of COVID-19 is crucial to justify economically costly social distancing measures. We present a case study focusing on the three Scandinavian countries. Whereas Denmark and Norway imposed relatively strict measures, Sweden follows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214173
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Right and Yet Wrong : A Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 Containment Policy
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020
In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827114