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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Autor Principal: Dizioli, Allan
Outros autores: Pinheiro, Roberto
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/188
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF