alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels … of European countries after their lockdown measures were relaxed. In the baseline simulation, we find that cases and …

We study the impact of the Belgium lockdown on retail prices using a unique dataset tracking daily prices and … promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with …, retailers, products, and over time. We show that LP chains reacted the most to the lockdown with spatial heterogeneity. The …

risk exposure affect the welfare effect of lockdowns? This paper examines the 'welcomed lockdown' hypothesis, namely the … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on …

Using a gravity-like approach, we study how Covid-19 deaths and lockdown policies affected countries' imports from …

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 …