Information and Inequality in the Time of a Pandemic /

We introduce two types of agent heterogeneity in a calibrated epidemiological search model. First, some agents cannot afford staying home to minimize their virus exposure, while others can. Our results show that these poor agents bear most of the epidemic's health costs. Moreover, we show that...

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Hovedforfatter: Dizioli, Allan
Andre forfattere: Pinheiro, Roberto
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/188
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF