Browsing by Author "Basso, Leonardo J."

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    Effects of asymmetric information on airport congestion management mechanisms
    (2019) Aravena, Olivia; Basso, Leonardo J.; Figueroa González, Nicolás Andrés
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    Infection with SARS-CoV-2 variant Gamma (P.1) in Chile increased ICU admission risk three to five-fold
    (2023) Sauré, Denis; Rizzo, Alessandro; Neira, Ignasi; Goic, Marcel; O’Ryan, Miguel; Torres, Juan P.; Bruhn, Alejandro; Ferres Garrido, Marcela Viviana; Angulo Troncoso, Jenniffer Alexandra; Vera Alarcon, Maria Magdalena; Basso, Leonardo J.
    The 2021 wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Chile was characterized by an explosive increase in ICU admissions, which disproportionately affected individuals younger than 60 years. This second wave was also accompanied by an explosive increase in Gamma (P.1) variant detections and the massive vaccine rollout. We unveil the role the Gamma variant played in stressing the use of critical care, by developing and calibrating a queueing model that uses data on new onset cases and actual ICU occupancy, symptom’s onset to ICU admission interval, ICU length-of-stay, genomic surveillance, and vaccine effectiveness. Our model shows that infection with the Gamma (P.1) variant led to a 3.5–4.7-fold increase in ICU admission for people younger than 60 years. This situation occurred on top of the already reported higher infection rate of the Gamma variant. Importantly, our results also strongly suggest that the vaccines used in Chile (inactivated mostly, but also an mRNA), were able to curb Gamma variant ICU admission over infections.
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    Maximization of equilibrium utility vs minimization of resources in the urban equilibrium
    (2024) Basso, Leonardo J.; Pezoa, Raúl; Silva, Hugo E.; CEDEUS (Chile)
    We study welfare and the role of absentee landlords’ rent capture in one of the building blocks of urban economics: the monocentric city model. If only a fraction (but not all) of the absentee landlords’ land rents is captured and then redistributed, the market outcome minimizes resource usage but does not maximize residents’ utility. Therefore, when the utility-maximizing planner is unable to implement full taxation of land rents, she would prefer to intervene in the market outcome, while a planner minimizing resources would not. This difference implies that policy prescriptions crucially depend on the chosen welfare function (utility vs resources) and the land rent taxation rate.
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    Monopoly regulation under asymmetric information: prices versus quantities
    (2017) Basso, Leonardo J.; Figueroa González, Nicolás Andrés; Vásquez, Jorge
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    The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents
    (2022) Hess, Stephane; Lancsar, Emily; Mariel, Petr; Meyerhoff, Juergen; Song, Fangqing; Van den Broek-Altenburg, Eline; Alaba, Olufunke A.; Amaris, Gloria; Arellana, Julian; Basso, Leonardo J.; Benson, Jamie; Bravo-Moncayo, Luis; Chanel, Olivier; Choi, Syngjoo; Sourd, Romain Crastes Dit; Cybis, Helena Bettella; Dorner, Zack; Falco, Paolo; Garzon-Perez, Luis; Glass, Kathryn; Guzman, Luis A.; Huang, Zhiran; Huynh, Elisabeth; Kim, Bongseop; Konstantinus, Abisai; Konstantinus, Iyaloo; Larranaga, Ana Margarita; Longo, Alberto; Loo, Becky P. Y.; Oehlmann, Malte; O'Neill, Vikki; Ortuzar Salas, Juan De Dios; Sanz, Maria Jose; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Moyo, Hazvinei Tamuka; Tucker, Steven; Wang, Yacan; Wang, Yu; Webb, Edward J. D.; Zhang, Junyi; Zuidgeest, Mark H. P.