What accounts for Sweden’s high COVID death rate among the Nordics? One factor could be Sweden’s lighter lockdown. But we suggest 15 other possible factors. Most significant are:(1) the “dry-tinder” situation in Sweden (we suggest that this factor alone accounts for 25 to 50% of Sweden's...

We argue that the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic by all levels of government around the world is not consistent with recommendations from standard welfare economics. Thus, it is important to ask why such policies have been adopted. That opens the door to examining the political economy...

We examine how salience of extreme actions to gain access to vaccines affect general vaccine preferences. To do so, we use a survey experiment conducted shortly after a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines were made available to prioritized groups. We find that learning about people who jump the...