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. 2021 May 23;61:101147. doi: 10.1016/j.jjie.2021.101147

Table 3.

Parameters

Epidemiological
Basic transmission rate betabar 2.5/7 Moll (2020): Basic reproduction number =2.5; average duration of infectious period=7
Recovery rate gamma 1/7 Moll (2020): Average duration of infectious period=7
Initial (S, I, R) S1 0.9999968 Average value across prefectures as of March 11, 2020.
I1 2.909*10-6 Average value across prefectures as of March 11, 2020.
R1 0 Average value across prefectures as of March 11, 2020.
Countermeasures
Share of isolation of infectious eta 0.4036 Coefficient of Stay in the regression of estimated beta
Requeset-based Lockdown (baseline: strong) l 0.323 Coefficient of state-of-emergency dummy in the regression of Stay for 1st wave
Requeset-based Lockdown (weak) l 0.108 one-third of the baseline
Lockdown Start lstart 27 Start of the state of emergency in Tokyo (April 7, 2020) from day 1 (March 11, 2020)
Lockdown End lend 27+47 End of the state of emergency in Tokyo (May 24, 2020) from day 1 (March 11, 2020)
Behavioral
Learning speed chi 2/30 Kaplan, Moll and Violante (2020)
Upper bound of learning/basic transmission rate omega1 0.2 Kaplan, Moll and Violante (2020)
Days at which learning srart t0 120 Kaplan, Moll and Violante (2020)
Preference
Discount rate (per day) rho 0.05/365
Elasticity of substitution between social and home goods 1/(1-sigma) 2 Kaplan, Moll and Violante (2020)
Elasticity of substitution between social/home and regular goods 1/(1-psi) 1/0.9 Close to Cobb-Douglas
Share of home good in total consmption ch 0.32 Share of time spent on housework, caring or nursing, child care and shopping
Share of social goods in sum of social and regular goods cs/(cs+cr) 0.26 Share of services excluding utilities, communication, and rents
→Share paramter of home goods in social/home aggregate theta_h 0.57
→Share paramter of regular goods relative to social/home goods theta_r 0.95
Disutility of infection (baseline: high) D 1308.3 Coefficient of infection risk in the regression of the stay-at-home ratio for 1st wave
Disutility of infection (middle) D 324.3 Coefficient of infection risk in the regression of the stay-at-home ratio for 2nd wave
Disutility of infection (small) D 142.8 Coefficient of infection risk in the regression of the stay-at-home ratio for 3rd wave