How China managed the COVID-19 pandemic

W Tian - Asian Economic Papers, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across China and the world, causing more than 30
million infections and incalculable damage. China was seriously damaged and threatened …

[HTML][HTML] Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening

S Chang, E Pierson, PW Koh, J Gerardin, B Redbird… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic markedly changed human
mobility patterns, necessitating epidemiological models that can capture the effects of these …

Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020

A Goolsbee, C Syverson - Journal of public economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important
question is how much of that collapse resulted from government-imposed restrictions versus …

JUE insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other US cities

EL Glaeser, C Gorback, SJ Redding - Journal of urban economics, 2022 - Elsevier
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data
across five US cities, we estimate that total cases per capita decrease by 19% for every ten …

Globalization and pandemics

P Antràs, SJ Redding, E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We provide theory and evidence on the relationship between globalization and pandemics.
Business travel facilitates trade and travel leads to human interactions that transmit disease …

An interpretable system for predicting the impact of COVID-19 government interventions on stock market sectors

C Yang, MZ Abedin, H Zhang, F Weng… - Annals of Operations …, 2023 - Springer
Evaluating and understanding the financial impacts of COVID-19 has emerged as an urgent
research agenda. Nevertheless, the impacts of government interventions on stock markets …

Optimal lockdown in a commuting network

PD Fajgelbaum, A Khandelwal, W Kim… - American Economic …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against COVID-19 within a commuting network. Our
framework integrates canonical spatial epidemiology and trade models and is applied to …

Allocation of COVID-19 vaccines under limited supply

X Chen, M Li, D Simchi-Levi, T Zhao - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
This paper considers how to allocate Covid-19 vaccines to different age groups when limited
vaccines are available over time. The disease dynamics is specified by an age-structured …

Socioeconomic network heterogeneity and pandemic policy response

M Akbarpour, C Cook, A Marzuoli, S Mongey… - 2020 - nber.org
We develop a heterogeneous-agents network-based model to analyze alternative policies
during a pandemic outbreak, accounting for health and economic trade-offs within the same …

Testing, voluntary social distancing, and the spread of an infection

D Acemoglu, A Makhdoumi, A Malekian… - Operations …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the effects of testing policy on voluntary social distancing and the spread of an
infection. Agents decide their social activity level, which determines a social network over …