Effectiveness of Corona Lockdowns: Homburg's Flawed Analysis

Stefan Felder () and Bernt-Peter Robra
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Stefan Felder: University of Basel

Working papers from Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel

Abstract: This is a comment on Homburg (2020) who claimed that lockdowns were superfluous and ineffective. We demonstrate major flaws: Homburg's data base is not suitable to support his claim and his econometric approach does not allow for an analysis of a lockdown's incremental effect.

Keywords: Corona; SARS-CoV-2; Covid-19; Lockdown (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-30
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