This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a …

can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …

levels of democracy. In developed countries, especially old democracies, election-year deficits actually reduce the … countries and in new democracies, but voters are affected by growth over the leader's term in office rather than in the election …

structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative …

We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …

This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …