adjust daily COVID-19 deaths to match weekly excess mortality. Focusing on Sweden, the only country that has good data and … did not impose a lockdown, we construct counterfactuals for what would have happened if it had imposed a lockdown, using a …, we find that a lockdown would have had sizable effects already after a week. The 3–4 weeks delay highlighted in previous …

’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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 …