Bobashev, Georgiy; Cropper, Maureen L.; Epstein, Joshua M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines positive externalities and complementarities in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate pandemic influenza. The paper demonstrates the presence of treatment externalities in simple epidemiological SIR models, and then through simulations of a Global Epidemiological...