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Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic

Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic

We use a conventional dynamic economic model to integrate individual optimization, equilibrium interactions, and policy analysis into the canonical epidemiological model. Our tractable framework allows us to represent both equilibrium and optimal allocations as a set of differential equations that can jointly be solved with the epidemiological model in a …