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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.
The impact of Covid-19 on supply chains
Global Value Chains will change: brand new research on what this change implies.
New and noteworthy books in economics (April)
New books by Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty and David A. Singer.
Ready to lift the lockdowns?
When testing and tracing are only two of the policy tools for a successful reopening of the economies.
Low oil prices in the COVID era
The sharp decline in oil prices presents governments with a dilemma: should they reduce retail prices?
Knightian uncertainty
Can the COVID-19 induced economic uncertainty be quantified? In such an environment, can we use quantitative models to guide policy?
Interesting initiatives
Many webinar series have been launched to disseminate new research on COVID-19. In this newsletter we included the ones we are following.
Will COVID-19 be a game changer?
What will change in politics and in our way of life? Could there be a green recovery?