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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
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An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
. There has been significant cross-country variation in the vaccination of people against COVID-19. In this study, we focus on … countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
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Vaccination policy and trust
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
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COVID-19, containment and consumption
Dahlhaus, Tatjana; Hyun, Daniel; Poulin-Moore, Antoine; … - 2022
We assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption indicators by estimating the effects of government-mandated containment measures and of the willingness of individuals to voluntarily physically distance to prevent contagion. To do this, we use weekly panel regressions across Canadian...
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Weather, Mobility and the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ghirelli, Corinna; González-Piñero, Andrea; Herrera, … - 2021
We estimate the effective reproduction number (Rt) of the current Covid-19 pandemic, with US daily infections data between February and September of 2020, at the county level. This is then used to estimate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the pandemic. We find a strong and...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Political institutions and health expenditure
Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - 2021
We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20-30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP...
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The impact of the Covid pandemic public policies in Chile on consumption
Madeira, Carlos - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 71-95
Using survey data, I simulate the counterfactual impact of the Chilean policies during the pandemic on household consumption. I find that aggregate consumption would have fallen by 16.7 percent in the absence of public transfers and a quarantine flexibilization policy. Consumption would still...
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Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security
Vu, Jonathan - 2020
Recent outbreaks of infectious pathogens such as Zika, Ebola, and COVID-19 have underscored the need for the dependable availability of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). The cost and risk of R&D programs and uniquely unpredictable demand for EID vaccines have discouraged...
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Innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO members : analytical review of Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) COVID-19 Vaccines Patent Landscape (VaxPaL)
Chiang, Ting-Wei; Wu, Xiaoping - 2022 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2022
This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines have accounted for 99% of the global COVID-19 vaccine production as of 31 December 2021, comprising over ten billion doses. Eight of them, namely...
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