TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Albanese, Andrea
AU  - Fallucchi, Francesco
AU  - Verheyden, Bertrand
        TI  - Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria
        PY  - 2021/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14553
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14553
        AB  - Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of Vaxzevria and the immediate reinstatement of the vaccine by most countries on respondents' intention to get vaccinated. By relying on survey data collected in Luxembourg and neighbouring areas between early March and mid-April, we observe that the willingness to be vaccinated was severely declining in the days preceding the EMA statement. We implement a regression discontinuity design exploiting the time at which respondents completed the survey and find that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions.
        KW  - supranational regulation
KW  - vaccine hesitancy
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - public health
KW  - regression discontinuity design
        ER  -