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Covid Economics, April 2020, with Martin Gonzalez-Eiras. PDF. 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 sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline specification a Covid-19 shock as currently experienced by the...

CEPR Discussion Paper 14612, April 2020, with Martin Gonzalez-Eiras. PDF (local copy). 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 sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline specification a Covid-19 shock as...

CEPR Discussion Paper 14612, April 2020, with Martin Gonzalez-Eiras. PDF (local copy). 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 sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline specification a Covid-19 shock as...

Die Unabhängigkeitspartei up! fordert, dass die Einschränkung der Bewegungsfreiheit in der Schweiz per sofort aufgehoben wird. Die Härte der Massnahmen sei durch die Bedrohungslage nicht gerechtfertigt.  “Wir appellieren an die Risikogruppen und deren Angehörige, sich bis auf Weiteres zu isolieren, um eine Ansteckung zu vermeiden und das Gesundheitswesen nicht unnötig zu belasten. Wir dürfen jedoch deswegen nicht länger alle Menschen einsperren” erklärt Silvan Amberg, Mitglied des...