Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk (2022). The political economy of early COVID-19 interventions in US states. Journal of economic dynamics & control, 140, p. 104309. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104309
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We investigate how politico-economic factors shaped government responses to the spread of COVID-19. Our simple framework uses epidemiological, economic and politico-economic arguments. Confronting the theory with US state level data we find strong evidence for partisanship even when we control for fundamentals including the electorate’s political views. Moreover, we detect an important role for the proximity of elections which we interpret as indicative of career concerns. Finally, we find suggestive evidence for complementarities between voluntary activity reductions and government imposed restrictions.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Niepelt, Dirk |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
ISSN: |
0165-1889 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Julia Alexandra Schlosser |
Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2022 15:09 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:27 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104309 |
PubMed ID: |
35068625 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/174652 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174652 |
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