Abstract The global SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 Pandemic has disrupted public health,
economies, and housing markets since early 2020. The shock has called forth a number of …

Pandemics have been a long-standing object of study by economists, albeit with declining
interest, that is until COVID-19 arrived. We review current knowledge on the pandemics' …

This paper provides a quick survey of results on the classic SIR model and variants allowing
for heterogeneity in contact rates. It notes that calibrating the classic model to data …

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking,
the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a remarkable opportunity to put to work all of the
research that has been undertaken in past decades on the elicitation and structural …

We embed an extension of the canonical epidemiology model in a New Keynesian model
and analyze the role of monetary policy as a virus spreads and triggers a sizable recession …

Many countries have imposed a set of non-pharmaceutical health policy interventions in an
effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to …

Most studies have explored the Covid-19 outbreak by mainly focusing on restrictive public
policies, human health, and behaviors at the macro level. However, the impacts of built and …

Infectious diseases, ideas, new products, and other infectants spread in epidemic fashion
through social contact. The COVID-19 pandemic, the proliferation of fake news, and the rise …

In order to slow the spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic, governments around the world have
enacted a wide set of policies limiting the transmission of the disease. Initially, these focused …