An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Young and Old Agents: Behavior, Testing and Policies
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- Brotherhood, Luiz & Kircher, Philipp & Santos, Cezar & Tertilt, Michele, 2021. "An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2021034, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
- Luiz Brotherhood, 2020. "An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies," Working Papers w202014, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
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Keywords
Covid-19; testing; social distancing; age-specific policies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E17 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2020-09-14 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2020-09-14 (Health Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2020-09-14 (Macroeconomics)
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