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This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR … cold. Testing reduces the time of uncertainty. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to age. Younger people are less … policy responses in terms of testing, confinements, and selective mixing by age group. …
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disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that … lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing … system. If the testing capacity is sufficiently large, contact tracing alone can halt the spread of the virus because it …
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testing strategy aiming at reconstructing the infection chain of newly symptomatic agents. A coordination failure arises as … to buy time to expand the testing scale and to preserve the tracing system. We provide theoretical underpinnings to the …
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of COVID-19 infections is revealed. A significant positive correlation between infections and testing is shown by the …
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(Panel) Smooth Transition Regressions substantially gained in popularity due to their flexibility in modeling regression coefficients as homogeneous or heterogeneous functions of transition variables. In the estimation process, however, researchers typically face a trade-off in the sense that a...
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reverse engineering knowhow, methodological innovations and new technologies, especially focusing on the tasks testing and … appropriate and affordable testing and diagnostics technologies. In order to operate and test the mechatronic device with CAN … technologies, especially focusing on the tasks testing and diagnostics of systems and their subassemblies. The European research …
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This paper derives unbalanced versions of the tests statistics for ¯rst order serial correlation and random individual e®ects summarized in Sosa Escudero and Bera (2001), and updates their xttest1 routine. The derived tests statistics should be useful for applied researchers faced with the...
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As long as it is employed cautiously enough, the model approach is a useful tool to estimate simultaneously the size and the development of the shadow economy in several countries. However, a second method is necessary to calibrate the model. The currency demand approach can lead to highly...
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undergoing conformity assessment procedures (CAPs), such as testing, inspection, or certification. Duplication, delays or … regulations do, and that testing and certification are the procedures that most frequently give rise to trade problems. Within the …
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