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Two approaches to saving the economy : micro-level effects of Covid-19 lockdowns in Italy
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kecht, Valentin; Le Blanc, Julia; … - 2023
In response to the two waves of Covid-19 in 2020, the Italian government implemented a general lockdown in March, but geographically targeted policies during fall. We exploit this natural experiment to compare the effects of the two policies in a difference-in-differences design, leveraging a...
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The economic impact of general vs. targeted lockdowns : new insights from Italian municipalities
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kecht, Valentin; Le Blanc, Julia; … - In: Economic modelling 134 (2024), pp. 1-16
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COVID-19 Vaccination : The Role of Crisis Experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...
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Covid-19 vaccination : the role of crisis experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520623
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Crisis experience and the deep roots of Covid-19 vaccination preferences
Borisova, Ekaterina; Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin - 2023
We examine the deep roots of preferences for vaccination against COVID-19, moving beyond proximate factors which can only account for part of the observable heterogeneity in the willingness to get vaccinated. Our model on experience-based learning predicts that exposure to past disruptive crises...
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#QuedateEnCasa : las políticas de distanciamiento social y la movilidad en América Latina y el Caribe
Aromi, Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - 2020
traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by an average of 10 percentage points … in March and the first week in April in countries that implemented lockdowns. However, this average effect hides an … documented during the first week. Also, while lockdowns reduced mobility by between 16 and 19 percentage points in Argentina …
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Public health and government preparations for future pandemics
Longworth, David J.; Milne, Frank - 2021
Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed and a wider set of plans had been put into place....
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Covid-19 and the Lack of Public Health and Government Preparation
Milne, Frank; Longworth, David J. - 2020
Much has been revealed recently regarding the relative unpreparedness of Public Health Authorities and their governments in many countries. We show that a lack of preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic resulted from four major types of shortcomings. First, even when there were problems noted in...
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Preparing for future pandemics: stress tests and wargames
Milne, Frank; Longworth, David J. - 2020
There is an important interdependence between economic, financial and health policy actions. The recent Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated that, apart from the direct economic consequences from illness and death from the virus, the main economic and financial costs have been due to the varying...
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Parallels between financial regulation prior to the global financial crisis and lack of public health preparation prior to Covid-19
Longworth, David J.; Milne, Frank - 2021
In this paper, we discuss 10 parallels between the lack of preparation of financial system regulators prior to the GFC and the lack of preparation by public health authorities and governments prior to Covid-19. These parallels relate to: required stocks (of capital or equipment), data collection...
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