may be understated if the impact of the coronavirus recession is neglected. …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

health and economic factors in a pandemic and how appropriate “lockdown”, income transfer, and loan policies could be …

alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels … of European countries after their lockdown measures were relaxed. In the baseline simulation, we find that cases and …

We present a Simple SIR Macro Model to study the economic impact of an epidemic in a model were agent types are … planner cannot differentiate between agent types). We find that decentralized economy produces an endogenous lockdown in which … economic activity decreases. We find that the decentralized economy will begin its lockdown sooner than what the optimal policy …

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance … the lockdown with the social and psychological benefits, and then compare the total of these with the increase in deaths …