effect is to reduce GDP and infections by forcing people to work from home. A premature lifting of the lock-down raises GDP … less productive, driven by the fear of infection. A longer lock-down eventually mitigates the GDP loss as well as attens … aggressive testing and tracking more effectively reduce infections and disrupt the economy less than a blanket lock-down. Finally …

updated our policy comparison with Sweden for the most recent data, with similar conclusions.: lower Swedish lockdown …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …