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The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to Covid ‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information

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ID7361817
AuthorsGermà Bel (0000-0002-1330-8085, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author), Óscar Gasulla (0009-0004-7239-0084, Universitat de Barcelona), Ferran A Mazaira‐font (0000-0002-2315-8834, Universitat de Barcelona)
Year2021
Volume81
Issue6
Pages1131-1146
Publication date2021-05-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Administration Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/puar.13394
PMID34226767
OpenAlexW3037986498
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited56

The COVID‐19 pandemic has become an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis. The present study has built a theoretical model and used it to develop an empirical strategy, analyzing the drivers of policy‐response agility during the outbreak. Our empirical results show that national policy responses were delayed, both by government expectations of the healthcare system capacity and by expectations that any hard measures used to manage the crisis would entail severe economic costs. With decision‐making based on incomplete information, the agility of national policy responses increased as knowledge increased and uncertainty decreased in relation to the epidemic's evolution and the policy responses of other countries

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Crisis response · Economics · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Agricultural risk and resilience · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine · Virology

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Citation span2021 - 2025 (5)
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