Behavioral Economics in the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theory and Simulations
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Título: | Behavioral Economics in the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theory and Simulations |
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Autor/es: | Marín-López, Blas Ángel | Jimenez-Gomez, David | Abellán, José María |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Microeconomía Aplicada (GIMA) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Palabras clave: | COVID-19 | Epidemiology | Game theory | Behavioral economics | Public health policy |
Fecha de publicación: | 3-ago-2022 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Marin-Lopez BA, Jimenez-Gomez D, Abellán-Perpiñán J-M. Behavioral Economics in the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theory and Simulations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(15):9557. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159557 |
Resumen: | We provide a game-theoretical epidemiological model for the COVID-19 pandemic that takes into account that: (1) asymptomatic individuals can be contagious, (2) contagion is behavior-dependent, (3) behavior is determined by a game that depends on beliefs and social interactions, (4) there can be systematic biases in the perceptions and beliefs about the pandemic. We incorporate lockdown decisions by the government into the model. The citizens’ and government’s beliefs can exhibit several biases that we discuss from the point of view of behavioral economics. We provide simulations to understand the effect of lockdown decisions and the possibility of “nudging” citizens in the right direction by improving the accuracy of their beliefs. |
Patrocinador/es: | Blas A. Marin-Lopez gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (ECO2017-87069-P). David Jimenez-Gomez is grateful for the funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the PID2019-107081GB-I00 project; from the Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the project “Nudging applied to the improvement of regulation” (RED2018-102761-T); from the Valencian Community, through the Prometeo program PROMETEO/2021/073. José-María Abellán-Perpiñán is grateful for the funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the PID2019-104907GB-I00 project. He is also grateful for funding from Fundacion Seneca through the 20825/PI/18 project. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/126191 |
ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19159557 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159557 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - GIMA - Artículos de Revistas |
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