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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

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 …

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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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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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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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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …

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Explaining vaccine hesitancy : a Covid-19 study of the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022

Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...

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An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To …

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