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The effect of face masks on Covid transmission : a meta-analysis

Lušková, Martina - 2024

The effect of face masks on Covid-19 transmission is crucial for the health of populations. The effectiveness of face masks in reducing the transmission of Covid-19 varies across primary evidence. To perform a quantitative meta-analysis, we collected 258 estimates from 44 primary studies...

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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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A workable strategy for COVID-19 testing : stratified periodic testing rather than universal random testing

Cleevely, Matthew; Susskind, Daniel; Vines, David; … - In: Oxford review of economic policy 36 (2020), pp. S14-S37

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Should contact bans be lifted in Germany? : a quantitative prediction of its effects

Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020

Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...

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The macroeconomics of testing and quarantining

Eichenbaum, Martin S.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Trabandt, Mathias - 2020

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Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint

Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2020

during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …

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Optimally controlling an epidemic

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020

We propose a flexible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity....

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Social distancing and supply disruptions in a pandemic

Bodenstein, Martin; Corsetti, Giancarlo; Guerrieri, Luca - 2020

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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

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The Great Lockdown : international risk sharing through trade and policy coordination

Engler, Philipp; Pouokam, Nathalie; Rodríguez, Diego; … - 2020

Voluntary and government-mandated lockdowns in response to COVID-19 have caused causing drastic reductions in economic activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home and foreign goods, and show that trading partners'...

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