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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Dizioli, Allan
مؤلفون آخرون: Pinheiro, Roberto
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/188
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF