Purpose: To determine the influence of COVID-19 and the first 2020 lockdown on Flemish people's initial travel … they might be able to travel again during the summer of 2020 (July/August). This research had two main aims: i) the pre-lockdown …

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries implemented a partial or full lockdown as a preventive … measure. Although lockdown caused an economic contraction, it unexpectedly improved the environment, especially air pollution …. This paper quantifies the impact of the lockdown on air quality by utilizing the air quality data and the lockdown periods …

What is the tenet upon which the public policy of lockdown by fiat experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic is based on … terms, the normative principles of utilitarianism and Rawlsianism, and shows that lockdown by fiat is a policy that is …

the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides new empirical evidence for the regional differentiation of lockdown measures and …

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …

We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated … numerical experiments illustrating the structure of the optimal lockdown policy. In all our experiments the latter is … characterized by three distinct periods: the epidemic is first let freely evolve, then vigorously tamed, and finally a less …

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …

characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically … arrives deterministically, optimal policy is discontinous, featuring a light/strict lockdown when the arrival date exceeds … gains from optimal policy unless the government lacks instruments to stimulate activity after a lockdown. …

characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically … arrives deterministically, optimal policy is dis-continuous, featuring a light/strict lockdown when the arrival date exceeds … gains from optimal policy unless the government lacks instruments to stimulate activity after a lockdown. …