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Effectiveness of corona lockdowns: Homburg's flawed analysis

This is a comment on Homburg (2020) who claimed that lockdowns were superfluous and ineffective. We demonstrate major flaws: Homburg's data base is not suitable to support his claim and his econometric approach does not allow for an analysis of a lockdown's incremental effect.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WWZ Working Paper ; No. 2020/08

Classification
Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Subject
Corona
SARS-CoV-2
Covid-19
Lockdown

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Felder, Stefan
Robra, Bernt-Peter
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
(where)
Basel
(when)
2020

DOI
doi:10.5451/unibas-ep76797
Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Felder, Stefan
  • Robra, Bernt-Peter
  • University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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