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

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 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. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...

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Pandemic recessions and contact tracing

Melosi, Leonardo; Rottner, Matthias - 2021

We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model in which infected agents may not show any symptoms of the disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly...

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Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking : no evidence on risk compensation in public waiting lines

Seres, Gyula; Balleyer, Anna; Cerutti, Nicola; … - 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage triggered a heated debate. A major point of controversy is whether community use of masks creates a false sense of security that would diminish physical distancing, counteracting any potential direct benefit from...

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Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking : evidence from public waiting lines

Seres, Gyula; Balleyer, Anna; Cerutti, Nicola; … - 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage was accompanied by a heated debate. It was argued that community use of masks creates a false sense of security that could decrease social distancing, thus making matters worse. We conducted a randomized field experiment...

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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics

Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...

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Optimal lockdown and vaccination policies to contain the spread of a mutating infectious disease

Prieur, Fabien; Ruan, Weihua; Zou, Benteng - 2022

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Measuring unemployment in crisis : effects of COVID-19 on potential biases in the CPS

Heffetz, Ori; Reeves, Daniel B. - 2023

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Trust issues? : how being socialised in an autocracy shapes vaccine uptake

Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Bayerlein, Michael; Gates, Scott - 2023 - This version: October 24, 2023

policies, especially regarding vaccine uptake across different countries. Based on this finding, we seek to understand why … examines the impact of individuals' experiences having lived in autocratic countries on vaccine hesitancy. We derive a formal … model of how autocratic experience and the subsequent distrust in health policies affect the individual calculus on vaccine …

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The European Commission – Appointment, Preferences and Institutional Relations

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2006

The paper analyzes the appointment of the European Commission as a strategic game between members of the European Parliament and the Council. The focal equilibrium results in Commissioners that duplicate policy preferences of national Council representatives. Different internal decision rules...

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The EU decision-making procedures : some insight from non cooperative game theory

Laruelle, Annick - 1997

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