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Searching for a "Golden Rule" of economic regulation of an infectious disease

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder - 2022

This paper investigates whether a "Golden Rule" of regulation of an infectious disease may be elicited that balances the economic control and disease costs when the arrival of a future vaccine or a cure is uncertain. Formulating an optimal control problem applied to standard compartment models...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States

Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...

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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy

Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....

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The structure of cigarette excises in the EU : from myths to reality

Primorac, Marko; Vlah Jerić, Silvija - 2017

Although it may at first seem unimportant, the structure of excise taxes on cigarettes greatly affects the price of … cigarettes, the structure of the consumption, but also the amount of the tax revenue. EU Directive 2011/64/EU prescribes the … combination of the specific and the proportional (ad valorem) excise tax on cigarettes. However, Member States independently …

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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 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...

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V for vaccines and variants

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Reissl, Severin; Turco, Enrico - 2021

We employ a new version of the ABC macro-epidemiological agent based model presented in Delli Gatti and Reissl (2020) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the role of a mitigating factor, reducing the frequency and the...

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Vaccination lottery

Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2021

Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer...

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Social distancing, vaccination and evolution of Covid-19 transmission rates in Europe

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2022

This paper provides estimates of COVID-19 effective reproduction numbers and explains their evolution for selected European countries since the start of the pandemic taking account of changes in voluntary and government mandated social distancing, incentives to comply, vaccination and the...

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