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Les hacemos llegar la invitación al Seminario, organizado por el Departamento de Economía, que se llevará a cabo el viernes 26 de marzo a las 12 horas. La presentación se titula: "Pandemic Control in ECON-EPI Networks"

Expone: Marina Azzimonti, Professor of Economics, Stony Brook University, NBER, CEPR.

Co-autores del artículo: Alessandra Fogli, Fabrizio Perri, Mark Ponder.

Abstract: We develop an ECON-EPI network model to evaluate policies designed to improve health and economic outcomes during a pandemic. Relative to the standard epidemiological SIR set-up, we explicitly model social contacts among individuals and allow for heterogeneity in their number and stability. In addition, we embed the network in a structural economic model describing how contacts generate economic activity. We calibrate it to the New York metro area during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis and show three main results. First, the ECON-EPI network implies patterns of infections that better match the data compared to the standard SIR. The switching during the early phase of the pandemic from unstable to stable contacts is crucial for this result. Second, the model suggests the design of smart policies that reduce infections and at the same time boost economic activity. Third, the model shows that reopening sectors characterized by numerous and unstable contacts (such as large events or schools) too early leads to fast growth of infections.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.609

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