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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

Middle generation and middle class before the post-covid19 recession, Income, wealth and health i...

Young-mid-aged adults (YMAA) - typically in the first decades of their entry in the labour market - make strategic choices in a context of uncertainty, such as home ownership, debt and saving balance, and wealth strategies, which have strong impacts in the long run. Before covid19, apart from the 2008 financial crisis, relative stability, easier access to credit, and the rapid growth of the housing index (with different magnitudes across countries) favored home ownership; early investment (through debt) favored capital gains. The later the decision to buy, the smaller the surface a househol...