The paper focuses on modeling of public health measures to control the COVID‐19
pandemic. The authors suggest a flexible integral model with distributed lags, which …

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns highlight the close and delicate
relationship between a country's public health and economic health. Models that combine …

This document depicts an empirical approach to the dynamics of diagnosed CoVid19
infections at outbreak scenarios. We study empirical daily diagnosed infections. By …

With the COVID-19 pandemic infecting millions of people, large-scale isolation policies have
been enacted across the globe. To assess the impact of isolation measures on deaths …

We analyze the optimal lockdown in an economic–epidemic model with realistic
infectiveness distribution. The model is described by Volterra integral equations and …

The rapid spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) confronts policy makers with the problem of
measuring the effectiveness of containment strategies, balancing public health …

We model COVID-19 data for 89 nations and US states with a recently developed formalism
that describes mathematically any pattern of growth with the minimum number of …

The economic impact of public health measures to contain the COVID-19 novel coronavirus
is a matter of contentious debate. Given the high uncertainties, there is a need for combined …

Much of the rapidly developing economic literature on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
builds on the classic SIR-model of contagion. 1 The simplest version of this model derives …

This note is intended to introduce economists to a simple SIR model of the progression of
COVID-19 in the United States over the next 12-18 months. An SIR model is a Markov model …