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 …

lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …