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Consumer Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis : Evidence from Bank Account Transaction Data
Andersen, Asger Lau - 2020
spending caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shutdown of the Danish economy. We find that aggregate spending was … on average 27% below the counterfactual level without the pandemic in the seven weeks following the shutdown. The … spending drop was mostly concentrated on goods and services whose supply was directly restricted by the shutdown, suggesting a …
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy re- ects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203813
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206448
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200113
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Lockdown 101 : managing economic lockdowns in an epidemic
Ornelas, Emanuel - 2020
Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257770
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225440
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227934
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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023
This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an …. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic reveals an 80% reduction in death toll due to voluntary actions and the lockdown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540526
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The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown and the Subsequent Re-Opening on Consumption in Iran
Hoseini, Mohammad; Valizadeh, Abolmohsen - 2021
in value of transactions dropped by 41% compared to the benchmark month before the pandemic. After lifting the lockdown …, the growth rose by 12% above the benchmark month. We also find that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a spike in online …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251651
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Girls' Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing
Giardili, Soledad; Jain, Sanjay; Miller, Amalia R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa, using detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC, covering the period before and during Kenya's first national...
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