escalated in future epidemic waves, providing huge welfare benefits both in terms of fewer infections and stronger economic … effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying … speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with the vaccines. Vaccination is very powerful at reducing virus …

This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been … influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …

effects regressions controlling for global time-varying confounding factors and regional time-invariant confounding factors on …

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade … with endogenous dynamics for the pandemic. There are three main results. First, the macroeconomic effects of the epidemic …

while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …

We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination …, indicating that the crisis history of countries is positively correlated with preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination …