mobility rate to model its relationship with wildfires in Amazon basin countries during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March …, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil during a brief initial period, but the effects dissipated after 30 days. After …

characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically … arrives deterministically, optimal policy is dis-continuous, featuring a light/strict lockdown when the arrival date exceeds … gains from optimal policy unless the government lacks instruments to stimulate activity after a lockdown. …

We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity … discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …