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 …

characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically … arrives deterministically, optimal policy is dis-continuous, featuring a light/strict lockdown when the arrival date exceeds …/falls short of a specific value. Calibrated to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the baseline model and a battery of robustness checks …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its mobility restrictions have been an external shock, influencing wellbeing. However, does … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … lockdown took effect. However, such effects are wiped out when a country exhibits high mortality ('pandemic category 5'). Hence …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

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 …

lockdown while containing the spread of the virus. Such policies may, however, need to be complemented by selective containment …

Using a gravity-like approach, we study how Covid-19 deaths and lockdown policies affected countries' imports from …, suggesting that the negative demand effects prevailed over the negative supply effects of the pandemic. On the other hand, Covid … offsetting countries' own effects. The net effect of moving from the pre-pandemic situation to another where the main variables …

-wing misperceptions as well as fake news exposure and sharing. We also shed light on how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced both … often, both intentionally and unintentionally. The COVID-19 pandemic increased fake news sharing and amplified right …

potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on …Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the … with a "still and dry pandemic for the many" hypothesis). However, we document an increase in alcohol use among heavy …