Category: COVID-19
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In the event of a second wave, we now have better policies
Brand new research using a a multi-risk version of SIR models suggests policies that lower both societal and economic loss.
Economics or culture?
Income or culture predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Jobs at risk in the EU
Which European regions are more at risk of facing a labor market crisis induced by the pandemic?
The COVID-19 debt crisis
How can advanced economies deal with rising debt after the crisis is over.
The importance of open data
How can statistics capture the current state of the economy? How can AI play a significant role in the fight against COVID?
A refutation
A new paper refutes earlier findings that non-pharmaceutical interventions during the 1918 Spanish flu led to higher subsequent economic growth.
A COVID vaccine will require really big spending
Brand new research by Michael Kremer and al. on how to incentivize firms to quickly develop and manufacture at large scale a COVID vaccine.
What type of recovery?
Will it be a V-shaped or an L-shaped recovery? What are the arguments?
Asset price spirals and the Fed
Since the outbreak of COVID the Fed has been shoring up the financial system, is it going too far?
Do we have to worry about inflation?
Although the yield curve for inflation-indexed bonds is not currently predicting higher inflation, there are reasons to worry.