20 projects
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An Experimental test of Hospital Admission Guidelines
The project consists in an anonymous survey experiment on hospital guidelines during pandemics, such as those indicated by the Commission Nationale D'Ethique. Hospital guidelines are there to regulate admissions and treatment in case of congestion. Such guidelines, however, are rarely discussed in the media and most people are unlikely to be familiar with them. We propose to ask respondents whether they agree or not with the ethical principles of such guidelines and which ethical principles they would favor the most. In particular, we ask them to read a number of hypothetical scenarios on ...
COVID-19 related economic implications in Luxembourg: services industry robustness and commercial...
The proposed project seeks to understand crucial short- and medium-term economic impacts on and strategies of Luxembourg's commercial real estate industry (offices, hotels, large retail) as a proxy for its services industries' crisis resilience. Luxembourg is a small but open economy. The finance and advanced business services (FABS) are strategic industries and main contributors to Luxembourg's GDP. Close links between FABS firms (business ties, finance relationships) can amplify shocks in Luxembourg's economy. The likely damage done to the finance sector depends also on how flexible real...
Digital upskilling in a telework environment
Analyzing, understanding and determining the influence of the current health crisis on firms' productivity and workers' well-being for activities that can be perform via telework is essential to support the workforce for the current and future economic challenges, and turn them into opportunities. Indeed, in parallel with the current COVID-19 health crisis, the labour market is undergoing profound changes linked to the digital transformation, which will increase in the future (i.e. job replacement, new tasks to require digital skills). An increased use of digital tools at the workplace is n...
Distributional impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
The project aims to assess the costs and distributional implications of the COVID-19 outbreak in Luxembourg. It will identify those most likely to suffer from income losses, leading to more effective/efficient targeting of income support measures and improved cost estimates of COVID-19. The lack of timely available data constrains the estimation of the scale and direction of recent changes in the income distribution, which in turn constrain policymakers seeking to monitor such developments. There are huge uncertainties about the budgetary costs and distributional impacts of the outbreak....
Effect of the Pandemic on Air and Maritime traffic and the Atmosphere (EPAMA)
We will use existing databases to study the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic onto air and maritime traffic and consequently onto the atmosphere. Through this, the socio-economic and environmental impact of the disease can be better understood. This help to prepare for the future. In addition, it helps to understand what impact traffic has onto the atmosphere.
Exit from confinement using online self-diagnostic
It is crucial to relaunch the economic activities in a way that the contamination risk does not increase too drastically. The idea is to identify for each employee the time when she/he could go back to their work, that can't be done online. The identification should be based on the self-diagnosis online tool designed in collaboration with medical researchers. For simplicity and minimum of risk, we shall suppose that a given combination of observable (for an individual) symptoms must be related to COVID. Thus, employees who has recently suffered from a simple flu and still have some remaini...
Keeping our Eyes open on Developing Countries - Coping with Humanitarian and (illegal) Migration ...
As European countries restart their economies, they will also consider reopening their internal and external borders. What will they do with respect to countries where the Covid-19 is not yet under control? In particular, the control over external borders is expected to remain for a (much) longer period if developing countries are unable to contain the spread of the virus. European countries, with or without coordination, are likely to close their borders and restrict entry to people from Africa and other poor regions. Such restrictions would affect either the selection of the destination ...
MESSEQ - MEthodology for Simulation and Selection of Economic Quarantine exit scenarios
Introduction - One of the main challenges in the crisis period we are going through is to choose the right scenario for leaving quarantine or even resuming partial quarantine if necessary. The scenarios to be analysed must combine public health and economic and social impact. Such an initiative should be carried out in collaboration with government decision-making bodies such as Ministry of Economy, HCPN... Objective - This project would then make it possible to simulate and test all the possible scenarios for a gradual exit from containment while limiting the risk of contagion and optimis...