Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
Flavio Toxvaerd and Miltos Makris (University of Kent) have published an article for VOXeu titled "Vaccines against COVID-19 are on the horizon; now is the time to manage the transition rationally". This column examines how the prospect of a vaccine alters individuals' incentives to self-protect and how the social planner would prefer the individual to behave, between now and the arrival of the vaccine.
