National policies in a global pandemic. 24/04/2020
Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
CEPR - London
2020
epidemic disease ; government policy ; national level
Government and public administration
https://voxeu.org/article/national-policies-global-pandemic
English
"While COVID-19 is a global pandemic, the policy responses so far have been almost exclusively national. This column uses a theoretical model to analyse national containment policies in an integrated world. The findings suggest that the first-best solution is global coordination on public health responses, including domestic containment policies. In the absence of ability to coordinate on the global level, regional coordination is called for."
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