We argue that the policy response to the COVID‐19 pandemic by all levels of government
around the world is not consistent with recommendations from standard welfare economics …

In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world issued stay‐at‐
home orders, which required that individuals stay at home unless they were engaging in …

Negative infectious disease externalities are less prevalent in the absence of government
intervention and less costly to society than is often supposed. That is so for three reasons.(1) …

How can public policy best deal with infectious disease? In answering this question,
scholarship on the optimal control of infectious disease adopts the model of a benevolent …

The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 led to extensive new government regulations and lockdown
policies that, according to some prominent definitions, severely reduced economic freedom …

We provide an initial assessment of the Federal Reserve's policy response to the COVID‐19
contraction. We briefly review the historical episode and consider the standard textbook …

Stay‐at‐home orders curtailed the individual liberty of those across the United States.
Governors of some states moved swiftly to impose the lockdowns. Others delayed and a few …

This paper provides a framework for understanding optimal lockdowns and makes three
contributions. First, it theoretically analyzes lockdown policies and argues that policy makers …

Abstract Research Summary We conducted a multisite qualitative evaluation of the
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) expansion states that received …

We investigate the determinants of the severity of US state-level lockdown regulations
adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We employ a new measure of Lockdown …