Selected article for: "individual utility and utility function"

Author: Arazi, R.; Feigel, A.
Title: Discontinuous transitions of social distancing
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  • Document date: 2020_8_16
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    Snippet: The 1st wave of COVID-19 changed social distancing around the globe: severe lockdowns to stop pandemics at the cost of state economies preceded a series of lockdown lifts. To understand social distancing dynamics it is important to combine basic epidemiology models for viral unfold (like SIR) with game theory tools, such as a utility function that quantifies individual or government forecast for epidemic damage and economy cost as the functions of social distancing. Here we present a model that
    Document: The 1st wave of COVID-19 changed social distancing around the globe: severe lockdowns to stop pandemics at the cost of state economies preceded a series of lockdown lifts. To understand social distancing dynamics it is important to combine basic epidemiology models for viral unfold (like SIR) with game theory tools, such as a utility function that quantifies individual or government forecast for epidemic damage and economy cost as the functions of social distancing. Here we present a model that predicts a series of discontinuous transitions in social distancing after pandemics climax. Each transition resembles a phase transition and, so, maybe a general phenomenon. Data analysis of the first wave in Austria, Israel, and Germany corroborates the soundness of the model. Besides, this work presents analytical tools to analyze pandemic waves.

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