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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
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Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics
Verlag: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper aims to provide reliable estimates for the COVID-19 contact rate of a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, From observable data on confirmed, recovered, and deceased cases, a noisy measurement for the contact rate can be constructed, To filter out measurement errors and seasonality, a novel unobserved components (UC) model is set up, It specifies the log contact rate as a latent, fractionally integrated process of unknown integration order, The fractional specification reflects key characteristics of aggregate social behavior such as strong persistence and gradual adjustments to new information, A computationally simple modification of the Kalman filter is introduced and is termed the fractional filter, It allows to estimate UC models with richer long-run dynamics, and provides a closed-form expression for the prediction error of UC models, Based on the latter, a conditional-sum-of-squares (CSS) estimator for the model parameters is set up that is shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed, The resulting contact rate estimates for several countries are well in line with the chronology of the pandemic, and allow to identify different contact regimes generated by policy interventions, As the fractional filter is shown to provide precise contact rate estimates at the end of the sample, it bears great potential for monitoring the pandemic in real time.
Schlagwörter: 
COVID-19
filtering
long memory
SIR model
unobserved components
JEL: 
C22
C51
C52
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Conference Paper

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