Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240417 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 2020/08
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), 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.
Subjects: 
Corona
SARS-CoV-2
Covid-19
Lockdown
JEL: 
I18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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