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 …

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 …

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

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months … while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central … message is that there is no "health vs. economics" dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis …

with endogenous dynamics for the pandemic. There are three main results. First, the macroeconomic effects of the epidemic … measure to 35 percent with a strong containment measure; second, recovery from recession emerges when the lockdown policy is … relaxed. On that basis, the output would return to its pre-lockdown level by the end of 2021; third, a return infection is …

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To … reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries …. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on …

and availability of the coronavirus vaccines would have been better. Interestingly, new covid cases did not significantly … study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … this aspect in the vaccine rollout by subsidizing and offering vaccines at a zero price. Our results show that the …

differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed. …