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 …

about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs of lockdown measures affects their attitudes towards these policies … for lockdown measures, while information about their economic costs decreases support. However, different population … subgroups react very differently. Men and younger respondents react more sensitively to information about lockdown costs, while …

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 …

affiliates located in CEE. A one percent larger wage gap between Sweden and CEE is estimated to be associated with 140 fewer jobs …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

rules during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany and draws on unique data from the 2019 and 2020 waves of the German AID …

Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …