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Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic
Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020
approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … policy intervention. Its effectiveness evolves with the epidemic and is larger when implemented at earlier stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313802
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Evaluating the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic
Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020
approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … policy intervention. Its effectiveness evolves with the epidemic and is larger when implemented at earlier stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315249
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Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects
Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2023
the same time. The core idea is to track outcome paths in terms of stages rather than time, where a stage of a regional … stages where a stage-leading region provides the no-policy counterfactual path for non-leading regions that are subject to … applications, and show that it captures heterogeneous policy effects across stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469587
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Stage-based identification of policy effects
Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2023
the same time. The core idea is to track outcome paths in terms of stages rather than time, where a stage of a regional … stages where a stage-leading region provides the no-policy counterfactual path for non-leading regions that are subject to … applications, and show that it captures heterogeneous policy effects across stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420754
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The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden: Don't lockdown
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2023
The coronavirus pandemic triggered strong political action across Europe. Mandatory restrictions to increase social distancing were imposed, commonly known as lockdowns. In some cases, entire countries were virtually locked down for several weeks at a time, contributing to a very severe downturn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551793
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Sonderauswertung der Sterbefallzahlen 2020
Zur Nieden, Felix; Sommer, Bettina; Lüken, Stephan - In: WISTA – Wirtschaft und Statistik 72 (2020) 4, pp. 38-50
Der Beitrag liefert Hintergrundinformationen zur Sonderauswertung der Sterbefallzahlen 2020 aus Anlass der Corona-Pandemie. Sterbefallzahlen werden seit Mitte April 2020 mit einem Zeitverzug von etwa vier Wochen zum Sterbegeschehen in Form von Rohdaten tagesgenau zur Verfügung gestellt. Durch...
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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Epidemic in France
Bertoli, Simone; Guichard, Lucas; Marchetta, Francesca - 2020
We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...
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Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy
Alacevich, Caterina; Cavalli, Nicolò; Giuntella, Osea; … - 2020
We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of the areas hit most severely, we estimate that...
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Firm bankruptcies and start-up activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis
Eckert, Florian; Mikosch, Heiner - 2021
This paper examines the incidence of firm bankruptcies and start-ups in Switzerland based on unique register data. We propose to assess the frequency of bankruptcies over time using the concept of excess mortality. During the Corona crisis in 2020 and the first half of 2021, bankruptcy rates...
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Másfél év pandémia Magyarországon: Mérséklõdõ különbségek a regionális és korspecifikus többlethalandóságban
Tóth, Csaba G. - 2022
In the first year and a half of the pandemic, the excess mortality in Hungary was 28,400, which was 1,700 lower than the official statistics on COVID-19 deaths. This discrepancy can be partly explained by protective measures instated during the COVID-19 pandemic that decreased the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199008