contacts drastically in the beginning, to almost eradicate the epidemic, and keeps them at around a third of pre-pandemic … survey data on social distancing and impure altruism from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The optimal policy reduces … epidemic in the laissez faire, though at a prevalence of infections much higher than optimal. Impure altruistic behaviour …

during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also … reduce COVID-19 infections, especially if they are introduced early in a country's epidemic. Despite involving short …

policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. We start by documenting two motivating observations which highlight the value of … information: First, an overreaction in mitigation at the onset of the pandemic compared to its later stages; Second, a tendency …

expert public. Since March 4, 2020, it has been publishing the numbers of coronavirus infections reported by health … few months. Since the second wave of the pandemic, the mere number of new infections and later the incidence number proved … through the months of an epidemic. …