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Covid and social distancing with a heterogenous population by Makris, Miltiadis

“…Motivated by the Covid-19 epidemic, we build a SIR model with private decisions on social distancing and population heterogeneity in terms of infection-induced…”
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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto games by Kovenock, Dan, Roberson, Brian

“…In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game (budget constraints satisfied in expectation) and the Colonel Blotto game (budget constraints hold with…”
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Infectious diseases, human capital and economic growth by Goenka, Aditya, Liu, Lin

“…Stylized facts show there is a clustering of countries in three balanced growth paths characterized by differing income/growth, human capital and incidence of…”
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Dynamic effects of patent policy on innovation and inequality in a Schumpeterian economy by Chu, Angus C., Furukawa, Yuichi, Mallick, Sushanta, Peretto, Pietro, Wang, Xilin

“…This study explores the dynamic effects of patent policy on innovation and income inequality in a Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous market structure…”
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Incentive and welfare implications of cross-holdings in oligopoly by Ma, Hongkun, Qin, Cheng-Zhong, Zeng, Chenhang

“…Competitive implications of cross-holdings have been extensively analyzed in the literature. Incentives for engaging cross-holdings and welfare effects were…”
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Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? by Ostrom, Elinor

“…The literature on global climate change has largely ignored the small but positive steps that many public and private actors are taking to reduce greenhouse…”
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Stress tests and information disclosure by Goldstein, Itay, Leitner, Yaron

“…We study an optimal disclosure policy of a regulator that has information about banks (e.g., from conducting stress tests). In our model, disclosure can…”
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Optimal vaccination in a SIRS epidemic model by Federico, Salvatore, Ferrari, Giorgio, Torrente, Maria-Laura

“…We propose and solve an optimal vaccination problem within a deterministic compartmental model of SIRS type: the immunized population can become susceptible…”
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Modelling optimal lockdowns with waning immunity by Goenka, Aditya, Liu, Lin, Nguyen, Manh-Hung

“…This paper studies continuing optimal lockdowns (can also be interpreted as quarantines or self-isolation) in the long run if a disease (Covid-19) is endemic…”
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Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness by Dana, Jason, Weber, Roberto A., Kuang, Jason Xi

“…This paper explores whether generosity in experiments is truly evidence of concern for desirable social outcomes. We conduct an experiment using a binary…”
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Harnessing beliefs to optimally disclose contestants’ types by Serena, Marco

“…A contestant’s effort depends on her knowledge of her rival’s type. This knowledge is often limited in real-life contests. We propose a model where the…”
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Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic by Farboodi, Maryam, Jarosch, Gregor, Shimer, Robert

“…We develop a quantitative framework for exploring how individuals trade off the utility benefit of social activity against the internal and external health…”
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Mobility decisions, economic dynamics and epidemic by Fabbri, Giorgio, Federico, Salvatore, Fiaschi, Davide, Gozzi, Fausto

“…We propose a model, which nests a susceptible-infected-recovered-deceased (SIRD) epidemic model into a dynamic macroeconomic equilibrium framework with agents’…”
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A simple planning problem for COVID-19 lockdown: a dynamic programming approach by Calvia, Alessandro, Gozzi, Fausto, Lippi, Francesco, Zanco, Giovanni

“…A large number of recent studies consider a compartmental SIR model to study optimal control policies aimed at containing the diffusion of COVID-19 while…”
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Bayesian persuasion under partial commitment by Min, Daehong

“…The “full commitment” assumption in the Bayesian persuasion literature might not always hold: the sender might be tempted to deviate from an information…”
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Analysis of optimal lockdown in integral economic–epidemic model by Hritonenko, Natali, Yatsenko, Yuri

“…We analyze the optimal lockdown in an economic–epidemic model with realistic infectiveness distribution. The model is described by Volterra integral equations…”
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Stochastic disease spreading and containment policies under state-dependent probabilities by La Torre, Davide, Marsiglio, Simone, Mendivil, Franklin, Privileggi, Fabio

“…We analyze the role of disease containment policy in the form of treatment in a stochastic economic-epidemiological framework in which the probability of the…”
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Uncertainty-driven symmetry-breaking and stochastic stability in a generic differential game of lobbying by Boucekkine, R., Prieur, F., Ruan, W., Zou, B.

“…We study a 2-player stochastic differential game of lobbying. Players invest in lobbying activities to alter the legislation in her own benefit. The payoffs…”
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Vertical contracting between a vertically integrated firm and a downstream rival by Kourandi, Frago, Pinopoulos, Ioannis N.

“…Compared to linear tariffs, two-part tariffs are generally perceived as being more efficient since double marginalization is avoided. We investigate the…”
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Optimal labor income taxation with the dividend effect by Kushnir, Alexey, Zubrickas, Robertas

“…The unequal distribution of dividends implies the unequal distribution of the profit share of workers’ product of labor. In a Mirrleesian framework when…”
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