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The drivers of policies to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Europe
Bourdin, Sébastien; Miled, Slimane Ben; Salhi, Jamil - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-9
While many articles have analyzed the effectiveness of the policies that aimed to limit the spread of COVID-19, very little research work has examined the determinants that drove these policies. Therefore, we proposed to study the determinants that led government authorities to implement more or...
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The impact of COVID-19 and its policy responses on local economy and health conditions
Gungoraydinoglu, Ali; Öztekin, Ilke; Öztekin, Özde - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-27
US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy … associated with social distancing. We find that lockdown measures are effective in alleviating disease severity, but yield …
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; 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....
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Does policy communication during COVID work?
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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SCARE: when economics meets epidemiology with COVID-19
Palma, André de; Picard, Natalie; Proost, Stef - 2020
costs of lockdown scenarios. The standard epidemic three-variable model, SIR (Susceptible, Infected and Removed) is extended … SCARE. We consider different observation rates and stringencies of lockdown. Both models are estimated for five countries … to test the impact of lockdown policies on economic costs for the well-documented Belgium case. Economic assessments of …
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Sectoral performance and the government interventions during COVID-19 pandemic : Australian evidence
Huynh, Nhan; Nguyen, Dat; Dao, Anh - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-16
This study explores the contrasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various industries in Australia. Considering all daily announced information, we analyzed the diverse impacts of COVID-19 on the sectoral stock returns from 26 January to 20 July 2020. Sixteen out of twenty examined stock...
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
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Gatekeeping in health care
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 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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Optimal lockdown and social welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020
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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