Lockdowns as Options

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Publication date 05-2022
Journal Economics Letters
Article number 110420
Volume | Issue number 214
Number of pages 5
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  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract The irreversibility of dying coupled with gradual information acquisition over time on the likely arrival and eventual effectiveness of vaccines confers a real option value to lockdown strategies that delay the incidence of pandemics given a stochastic vaccine arrival/effectiveness process.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110420
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