Lombardy
How to Restart the Economy and Save Lives: Simulations on Northern Italy
Italian officials have to choose the optimal strategy to end the lockdown. A policy that sends all the active population back to work avoids...
Managing Expectations Is Critical to Ensure Compliance with Stay-at-Home Measures
A study of a representative sample of Italians finds that 50 percent of respondents reported having adopted all recommended actions, including staying at home,...
The Case for Lockdown: in Italy’s Lombardy, It Can Reduce Covid-19 Potential Fatalities from 160,000 to 25,000
According to an analysis by Bocconi University professor Carlo Favero, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Lombardy, Northern Italy, is 120,000, while...
Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
