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Risk compensation after COVID-19 vaccination
Hwang, Jisoo; Hwang, Seung-sik; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; … - 2023
This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We apply a regression discontinuity design around the birth date cutoff of vaccine eligibility using large, high-frequency data from credit card and airline companies as well as...
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Industry-Level Baseline Risk of COVID-19 Infection
Canann, Taylor - 2020
We present an industry classification–level model of economic activities in terms of (1) risk of the novel coronavirus …
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Contact network based risk assessment to prevent potential pandemics
Jin, Shengpeng; Alexander, Suraj M. - In: International journal of collaborative enterprise : IJCEnt 4 (2014) 1/2, pp. 53-68
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Intervention Uncertainty, Household Health, and Pandemic
Sun, Rui; Zhao, Yikai - 2021
This paper builds a government policy choice model in a general equilibrium setting in which households' health status responds to a stricter policy on the pandemic. By assuming an exogenous policy decision date, the model implies the government should maintain the current policy until the...
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Risk or Benefit? Expenditures with Medicines Demanded by Judicial Decisions against Brazilian National Public Health System (SUS) and the Risk of Damage to Patients by Medicines In...
Faleiros, Daniel; Guerra, Augusto A.; Silva, Grazielle D.; … - 2008
Rationale: The policy of free and universal access to healthcare in Brazil, that assures the principle of equity based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, has caused repercussions as citizens become more aware of their rights. This has been achieved via lawsuits based on the statement: health...
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an … epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth … but firms can mitigate damages. We estimate a large reproduction number R0 and transmission volatility for COVID-19. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833123
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an … epidemic model and link valuations to infections by using an asset-pricing framework that accounts for vaccines. Infections … lower earnings growth but firms can mitigate damages. We estimate a large reproduction number R_0 and transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834259
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison - 2020
We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an … epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth … but firms can mitigate damages. We estimate a large reproduction number R0 and transmission volatility for COVID-19. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481801
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Implications of stochastic transmission rates for managing pandemic risks
Hong, Harrison G.; Wang, Neng; Yang, Jinqiang - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237974
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Understanding the Risk of an Avian Flu Pandemic : Rational Waiting or Precautionary Failure?
Basili, Marcello; Franzini, Maurizio - 2007
The precautionary principle (PP) has been proposed as the proper guide for the decision-making criteria to be adopted in the face of the new catastrophic risks that have arisen in the last decades. This article puts forward a workable definition of the PP based on the so-called a-maximin...
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