Testing alone is insufficient.

IF 0.3 4区经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS

Review of Economic Design Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1007/s10058-022-00295-6

Rahul Deb, Mallesh Pai, Akhil Vohra, Rakesh Vohra

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Abstract

The fear of contracting a serious illness caused by a contagious disease limits economic activity even after reopening. Widespread testing alone will not alleviate this problem. We argue that targeted testing in concert with targeted transfers is essential. We propose a model with these features to determine where agents should be tested and how they should be incentivized. Agents with a low wage, a high risk of infection, and who bear a large cost of falling ill should be tested at work. When testing is very costly, agents with high wages and low expected costs associated with falling ill should be tested at home.

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仅仅进行测试是不够的

对传染病引起的严重疾病的恐惧限制了经济活动，即使在重新开放之后也是如此。仅靠广泛的检测无法缓解这一问题。我们认为，有针对性的检测和有针对性的转移至关重要。我们提出了一个具有这些特点的模型，以确定应该在哪些地方对代理人进行检测，以及应该如何激励他们。工资低、感染风险高、患病成本高的代理人应在工作时接受检测。当检测成本很高时，工资高且患病预期成本低的代理人应在家中接受检测。

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Review of Economic Design ECONOMICS-

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0.80

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： Review of Economic Design comprises the creative art and science of inventing, analyzing and testing economic as well as social and political institutions and mechanisms aimed at achieving individual objectives and social goals. In this age of Economic Design, the accumulated traditions and wealth of knowledge in normative and positive economics and the strategic analysis of game theory are applied with novel ideas in the creative tasks of designing and assembling diverse legal-economic instruments. These include constitutions and other assignments of rights, mechanisms for allocation or regulation, tax and incentive schemes, contract forms, voting and other choice aggregation procedures, markets, auctions, organizational forms, such as partnerships, together with supporting membership and other property rights, and information systems. These designs, the methods of analysis used in their scrutiny, as well as the mathematical techniques and empirical knowledge they employ, along with comparative assessments of the performance of known economic systems and implemented designs, all of these form natural components of the subject matter of Economic Design. Officially cited as: Rev Econ Design