• Media type: Report; Paper; E-Book
  • Title: Can the vaccinations end the Covid-19 pandemic?
  • Contributor: Greiner, Alfred [Author]; Owusu, Benjamin Kwaw [Author]
  • imprint: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2022
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2961672
  • ISSN: 2196-2723
  • Keywords: Covid-19 ; externalities ; vaccination ; pandemic
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  • Description: Greiner A, Owusu BK. Can the vaccinations end the Covid-19 pandemic? . Universität Bielefeld Working Papers in Economics and Management. Vol 03-2022. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics; 2022. ; In this paper we empirically analyze the effect of the vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Covid-19 pandemic for European countries from February 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline estimations. We find a statistically significant and positive relation between the share of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the share of vaccinated people. That holds for both fully vaccinated persons and for people having received a booster injection as well. As regards hospitalizations we find weak empirical evidence for a negative relation between vaccinations and the rate of hospitalizations.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)