Economic Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Model with “Acquired Immunity”

Juan Esteban Carranza, Juan David Martin and Alvaro Riascos ()

Review, 2022, vol. 104, issue 1, 16 pages

Abstract: We calibrate a macroeconomic model with epidemiological restrictions using Colombian data. The key feature of our model is that a portion of the population is immune and cannot transmit the virus, which improves substantially the fit of the model to the observed contagion and economic activity data. The model implies that during 2020, government restrictions and the endogenous changes in individual behavior saved around 15,000 lives and decreased consumption by about 4.7 percent. The results suggest that most of this effect was the result of government policies.

Keywords: COVID-19; economic activity; government policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E1 H0 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.20955/r.104.1-16

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