کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
9556143 1377081 2005 28 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Infectious disease and preventive behavior in an overlapping generations model
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات کنترل و بهینه سازی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Infectious disease and preventive behavior in an overlapping generations model
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper incorporates prevalence of disease and agent's preventive behavior (i.e., health investment) into a small open overlapping generations model and investigates the dynamic behaviors of the competitive equilibrium allocation. Using the model, it is shown that agents' 'prevalence-elastic behaviors', which are supported from empirical studies, can be obtained, and that such agents' behaviors cause the cyclicity of the spread of disease. We also show that although the agents' preventive behavior in a competitive equilibrium may be insufficient because of the existence of external effects, a one-shot medical aid from foreign countries does not necessarily improve the agents' welfare in the Pareto sense.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control - Volume 29, Issue 10, October 2005, Pages 1673-1700
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