Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic placed significant strain on many health systems and
economies. Mitigation policies decreased health impacts but had major macroeconomic …

In this paper, I use a simple SIR Macro model to examine Japan's soft lockdown policies in
2021 under the COVID-19 crisis. As real-time research, this paper consists of two parts …

Shocks to capital utilization are introduced in a structural macroeconomic model with
financial frictions. Estimates for the Euro Area and the United States show that these shocks …

We introduce a model of the diffusion of an epidemic with demographically heterogeneous
agents interacting socially on a spatially structured network. Contagion-risk averse agents …

We argue that the Covid epidemic disproportionately affected the economic well-being and
health of poor people. To disentangle the forces that generated this outcome, we construct a …

We formulate an economic time use model and add to it an epidemiological SIR block. In the
event of an epidemic, households shift their leisure time from activities with a high degree of …

This study uses a step-wise regression model to identify the socioeconomic variables most
significant in explaining COVID-19 death rates on a state-level basis. The regression tests …

In this article, the SIR model is used to fit the spread of influenza A in Ningbo, ranging from
January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023. The data that can be collected is the daily newly …

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design.
To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice …

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated lives and economies around the world. Initially a
primary response was locking down parts of the economy to reduce social interactions and …