Category: COVID-19
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“Vaccines for people” or “free market vaccines”?
Two diametrically opposed views on how the vaccines should be distributed from Mazzucato et al. and Cochrane.
Tracking the economic impact of COVID-19 with unconventional data
Economists use machine learning, big data as well as “alternative data” to gauge COVID’s impact on stock returns, expenditure patterns and, firm closures.
Survival of small and medium enterprises during COVID
Brand new research on how SMEs in Europe and the US are faring during the COVID recession.
Safe assets and COVID-19
Post COVID, will current account imbalances, large safe public debt issuance and the zero lower bound lead to a safety trap?
COVID-19 and its impact on women
Unlike other recessions, the COVID recession has disproportionately affected women. New research evaluates how gender wage inequality might be impacted during the recovery.
Caught between a rock and a hard place
Suppression or elimination of the virus? How to mitigate the shock to aggregate demand and supply?