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Winter 2020
ISSN 0890-913X
Volume 35, Number 4

Cross-Country Differences in Personal Protective Equipment Use

William J. Luther, Florida Atlantic Univeristy
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TheJournalofPrivateEnterprise35(4),2020,2127Cross-CountryDifferencesinPersonalProtectiveEquipmentUse*WilliamJ.LutherFloridaAtlanticUniversity__________________________________________________________AbstractWhydoestheuseofpersonalprotectiveequipment(PPE)differacrosscountries?Idevelopasimplemodelandthenofferseveralhypotheses.Whiletheprimaryobjectiveistoexplaincross-countrydifferences,themodelsuggestspotentialreasonsforwithin-countryandtime-seriesvariationaswell.Thelistofplausibleexplanationsconsistentwiththemodelisextensive.InadditiontoprovidingaframeworkforconsideringobserveddifferencesinPPE,thisexercisedemonstratesthedifficultyofexplainingrelativelysimplephenomena.__________________________________________________________JELCodes:D11,D85,I12,O35Keywords:disease,monitoring,network,networkeffect,networkexternality,personalprotectiveequipment,pandemic,socialsanction,virusI.IntroductionAglobalpandemicledtoasurgeindemandforpersonalprotectiveequipment(PPE)—likemasks,gowns,gloves,goggles,andfaceshieldsinearly2020.UShospitalsandgovernmentswereleftscramblingtostockup.1Inanefforttohelpfillthegap,manycompaniesquicklypivotedtoPPEproduction.2Criminalsseizedtheopportunityaswell,withadvancefeescamsandbusinessemail*BryanCutsinger,JoshuaHendrickson,ThomasHogan,andPhillipMagnessprovidedvaluablecommentsonanearlierdraftofthispaper.Anyremainingerrorsshouldbeattributedtotheauthor.1Goodnough(2020)reportsdwindlingsuppliesofN95masksasearlyasMarch9.2ThatmanysmallcompaniesbeganproducingPPEwassomewhatsurprising,consideringtheextensiveregulationpertainingtomedicalequipmentandthelimitedguidancefromgovernments(Mark2020).
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