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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …

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Health system trust and compliance with Covid-19 restrictions

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional...

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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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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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Refueling a quiet fire : old truthers and new discontent in the wake of Covid-19

Beccari, Gabriele; Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2023

-essential economic sectors, we find that COVID skepticism spreads more in municipalities significantly affected by this economic lockdown …

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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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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017

A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...

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Can regional decentralisation shift health care preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2017

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to...

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