This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been … influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …

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 …

/falls short of a specific value. Calibrated to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the baseline model and a battery of robustness checks …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

/falls short of a specific value. Calibrated to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the baseline model and a battery of robustness checks …

/falls short of a specific value. Calibrated to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the baseline model and a battery of robustness checks …