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Flavio Toxvaerd
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Should we pay people for getting infected? Should we increase fines for rule breakers? Incentives are key for controlling epidemic & getting it wrong can backfire. So far, the government
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Many have asked me about the effects of altruism in economic-epidemic models (in about every talk I give!). I've thought hard about this for a number of years and there
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The UK government is flying blind, introducing policies without proper prior assessment of their likely impact on the epidemic or the economy. This is now completely clear. Below I'll go
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The Danish Economic Council’s recent report contains an entire 100 page chapter on economics and epidemiology, complete with self-contained intro to epi models and a review of the new literature.
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Let’s talk suppression versus eradication. The real expert here is probably @devisridhar and she can chime in if she wants. As far as I can see we face several obstacles
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In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health
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It now appears that infection numbers are worse than the “worst case scenario”. What does that mean and does this indicate a failure of the policies that the government has
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