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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents : evidence from Louisiana
Barnes, Stephen R.; Beland, Louis-Philippe; Huh, Jason; … - 2020
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents …. Based on data from Google Community Mobility reports and Uniform Traffic Crash Report from the Louisiana Department of … Transportation and Develop- ment (LaDOTD), we find that the stay-at-home order led to a large decrease in traffic accidents (-47 …
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Disaster in Denver : Prelude to Pandemic Pandemonium
Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2008
Public health experts have been predicting imminent threat of pandemic influenza. The latest US preparedness plans use the single statistic of case-fatality as the basis to evaluate any new threats. On this basis, Avian flu (H5N1) has been declared the single pandemic threat of concern, such...
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044864
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Static and dynamic inefficiencies in an optimizing model of epidemics
Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R.; Pissaridēs, … - 2020
In an optimizing model of epidemics several externalities arise when agents shield to avoid infection. Optimizing behaviour delays herd immunity but also reduces overall infections to approximately the minimum consistent with herd immunity. For reasonable parameter values, and with no vaccine,...
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On the Efficiency of Competitive Equilibria with Pandemics
Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kirpalani, Rishabh; Pérez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The epidemiological literature suggests that virus transmission occurs only when individuals are in relatively close contact. We show that if society can control the extent to which economic agents are exposed to the virus and agents can commit to contracts, virus externalities are local, and...
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Science, Rulemaking, and COVID-19 in the Philippines : Evaluating the Scientific Basis of the Motorcycle Pillion Shield Regulation
Ballano, Vivencio - 2022
This article evaluates the Philippine government’s science-based response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the field of administrative rulemaking. Specifically, it evaluates the effectiveness of the Motorcycle Pillion Shield Regulation (MPSR) to implement social distancing and prevent...
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Transport in times of an epidemic : public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions
Vrána, Martin; Surmařová, Simona; Hlisnikovský, Petr; … - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 1, pp. 57-78
In the first half of 2020, the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus became a phenomenon affecting all spheres of human life. Measures against the spread of the virus have led to restrictions in life in public spaces and have also affected the transport sector. These impacts consisted of two...
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No Traffic Expected : The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Road Safety in Mexico
Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; … - 2022
In this study, we explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on road accidents, road injuries, and road fatalities in Mexico. We use national administrative road safety records that include road accidents in urban and suburban areas of Mexico over 2017 to 2020. Employing a state-level monthly...
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Dual Circulation and Population Mobility During the Pandemic in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang; Yu, Lamont - 2022
We use high-frequency data from location-based mobile phone records to measure domestic air travel patterns of the Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy and data from this industry helps serve as an objective...
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