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På WHO's hjemmeside står der: "no one is safe, unless everyone is safe". WHO gentager, hvad økonomiske lærebøger i sundhedsøkonomi påpeger

Design of a vaccination strategy to control a pandemic is an economic problem. Young Jun Lee and his co-author use time-series and panel methods to estimate effect on COVID-19 cases and deaths of two key elements of mas…

In June 2020, WHO established an informal Virus Evolution Expert Working Group to specifically assess SARS-CoV-2 evolution, mutations and variants. This independent group of experts, called Technical Advisory Group on…

Frederik Plesner Lyngse in Nature communications: Increased transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 by age and viral load

Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco publish in PLOS ONE

Can a few hundred kroner motivate people to be vaccinated? Yes, to a certain extent, shows a research project anchored in the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality, University of Copenhagen.

Den langsigtede strategi for genåbning af Danmark efter coronanedlukningen bygger bl.a. på baggrundpapir fra Frederik Lyngse Plesner.

A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening: there is an increasing attack rate and transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 with age -but children are also able to transmit SARS-CoV-2 within the household.

Social distancing laws cause only small losses of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scandinavia

Nearly 70% of firms report a revenue decline, with the median firm experiencing a decline of 20% due to Covid-19. In nearly all industries, more than half of the firms expected decreases in revenue.

Recent research from CEBI provides key estimate for the current discussions about the right fiscal stimulus policies to curb the financial downturn after the COVID-19 lockdown.

Hvad er det egentlig for en krise, vi står i, når vi hæver os op over nyhedsflimmeret og helt op i helikopteren? Hvordan skal vi forstå den? Og hvad skal krisen hedde?

In March 2020, the share of Google searches for prayer surged to the highest level ever recorded, surpassing all other major events that otherwise call for prayer, such as Christmas, Easter and Ramadan, shows Jeanet…

Christina ordinates cocktails - not the ones in glasses topped with little colourful umbrellas. But hardkicking cocktails of policies. In Behavioral Scientist Christina writes: "Emotions are, by definition, temporary. S…

Hvorfor er cool cash fra staten sat direkte ind på din bankkonto en god idé? Og hvorfor er der ingen politikere, der er løbet med den idé?

Most of the economic contraction is caused by the pandemic itself and occurs regardless of whether governments mandate social distancing or not.

In their newly published research Sarah Zaccagni and Paolo Falco find that the reminder significantly increases people’s intentions to stay home when it emphasises the consequences of non-compliance for the respondent…

Danmark låner under Coronakrisen milliarder af kroner i vores egen centralbank. Men er det overhovedet nødvendigt at betale gælden tilbage til vores egen nationalbank? Det forklarer Søren Hove Ravn nærmere om i Altinget…

The group advices the Danish government on the implications of re-opening the society during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Rapporten om genåbningen af Danmark offentliggøres tirsdag 6. maj i løbet af eftermiddagen. Senere er lektor Mette Gørtz fra Økonomisk Institut i Deadline-studiet for at kommentere på rapporten.

CEBI researchers in The Economist

Allerede om en måned vil landets virksomheder kunne få hjælp til at styre bedst muligt igennem coronakrisen. Hjælpen får de fra de første resultater af det forskningsprojekt, som professor Morten Bennedsen ved Økonomisk…

where he lays out the economic consequences of the corona virus and how to deal with it