TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficiency of government policy during the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Delis, Manthos D.
AU - Iosifidi, Maria
AU - Tasiou, Menelaos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/5/5
Y1 - 2023/5/5
N2 - We introduce country-month indices of efficiency of government policy in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Our indices cover 81 countries and the period from May 2020 to November 2021. Our framework assumes that governments impose stringent policies (listed in the Oxford COVID-19 Containment and Health Index) with the single goal of saving lives. We find that positive and significant correlates of our new indices are institutions, democratic principles, political stability, trust, high public spending in health, female participation in the workplace, and economic equality. Within the efficient jurisdictions, the most efficient ones are those with cultural characteristics of high patience.
AB - We introduce country-month indices of efficiency of government policy in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Our indices cover 81 countries and the period from May 2020 to November 2021. Our framework assumes that governments impose stringent policies (listed in the Oxford COVID-19 Containment and Health Index) with the single goal of saving lives. We find that positive and significant correlates of our new indices are institutions, democratic principles, political stability, trust, high public spending in health, female participation in the workplace, and economic equality. Within the efficient jurisdictions, the most efficient ones are those with cultural characteristics of high patience.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - determinants of efficiency
KW - frontier methods
KW - government efficiency
KW - Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158142651&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10479-023-05364-9
DO - 10.1007/s10479-023-05364-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158142651
SN - 0254-5330
JO - Annals of Operations Research
JF - Annals of Operations Research
ER -