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How much and when should we limit economic activity to ensure the health-care system is not overwhelmed?
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2020-05-06
In a recent working paper entitled "Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint", network members Laurent Miclo, Daniel Spiro and Jörgen Weibull analyze this question and show that...
Interview Johanna Giorgi, Tillväxtverket
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2017-03-20
Three questions to Johanna Giorgi, Analyst Sustainable Growth, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket)
Interview Fredrik Franke, PwC
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2017-03-20
Three questions to Fredrik Franke, head of PwC Sustainability advisory services in Sweden.
Under- and post-lockdown in emerging nations
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2020-05-04
The tradeoffs between contagion management and economic activity is sharper in poor countries and emerging markets. "We cannot have the poor, the labourers and the migrants bear the brunt of the...
How has COVID-19 affected the mobility of Swedes?
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2020-05-02
A paper by Matz Dahlberg (IBF, UU, IFAU) and a group of Uppsala-based researchers suggests that changes in mobility patterns are similar across geographic areas with different socioeconomic and...
Optimally Targeted Lockdown
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2020-05-06
A new working paper by Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Werning and Michael Whinston study optimal lockdown policy in the framework of a standard SIR epidemic model with multiple risk groups...
Optimal dynamic confinement under uncertainty and learning
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2020-07-01
In a new paper, network member Christian Gollier analyzes the uncertainty surrounding how contagious a virus is and how that affects optimal suppression.
Waning Immunity and the Second Wave: Some Projections for SARS-CoV-2
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2020-06-22
Network member Flavio Toxvaerd with coauthors consider, in a new working paper, the optimal social distancing policy in an SEIRS model of the COVID-19 epidemic in which immunity wanes over time.
Influence of population heterogeneity on herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2
Last updated
2020-07-01
MIT economist Glenn Ellison surveys the epidemiological literature on an SIR extension incorporating heterogeneity in the activity rates of different subpopulations, and notes ways in which analyses...
GDP development in Sweden relative to other countries in the wake of Covid-19
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2020-06-12
Swedish GDP closely follows that of our most important trading partners. In this Economic Commentary, network member Paola Di Casola and co-authors Y. Akkaya, C.-J. Belfrage and V. Corbo (Monetary...