Author: Bel, Germà ; Gasulla, Óscar; Mazairaâ€Font, Ferran A.
Title: The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to COVIDâ€19 Crisis under Incomplete Information Cord-id: b9mzkroh Document date: 2021_6_13
ID: b9mzkroh
Snippet: The COVIDâ€19 pandemic has become an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis. The present study has built a theoretical model and used it to develop an empirical strategy, analyzing the drivers of policyâ€response agility during the outbreak. Our empirical results show that national policy responses were delayed, both by government expectations of the healthcare system capacity and by expectations that any hard measures used to manage the crisis would entail severe economic costs. Wi
Document: The COVIDâ€19 pandemic has become an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis. The present study has built a theoretical model and used it to develop an empirical strategy, analyzing the drivers of policyâ€response agility during the outbreak. Our empirical results show that national policy responses were delayed, both by government expectations of the healthcare system capacity and by expectations that any hard measures used to manage the crisis would entail severe economic costs. With decisionâ€making based on incomplete information, the agility of national policy responses increased as knowledge increased and uncertainty decreased in relation to the epidemic's evolution and the policy responses of other countries.
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