Uncertainty and decision-making during a crisis: How to make policy decisions in the COVID-19 context?
Berger, Loïc ; Berger, Nicolas ; Bosetti, Valentina ; Gilboa, Itzhak ; Hansen, Lars ; Jarvis, Christopher ; Marinacci, Massimo ; Smith, Richard
HAL-SHS - Villeurbanne
2020
1 p.
epidemic disease ; decision making ; government policy ; risk management
hal-02907328
Risk assessment and risk management
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02907328
English
"Policymaking during a pandemic can be extremely challenging. As COVID-19 is a new disease and its global impacts are unprecedented, decisions need to be made in a highly uncertain, complex and rapidly changing environment. In such a context, in which human lives and the economy are at stake, we argue that using ideas and constructs from modern decision theory, even informally, will make policymaking more a responsible and transparent process."
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