COVID-Economics Links (March 27)

New daily list of links to articles about the economic consequences of COVID including some academic papers as well as proposals for policies:

• Macroeconomic nowcasting in times of Covid-19 crisis: On the usefulness of alternative data - Econbrowser
• Key Economic Facts About COVID-19 - Becker Friedman Institute
• After its COVID-19 emergency, Europe should issue joint recovery bonds - Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)
• A user guide to COVID-19 - VoxEU.org
• Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu - Correia, Luck and Verner
• Longer-run economic consequences of pandemics - Jorda, Singh and Taylor
• Bank of England warns of ‘very sharp’ economic downturn - FT.com
• Short-Term Yields Go Negative in Scramble for Cash - WSJ.com
• The coronavirus crisis is no 2008 - VoxEU.org
• The Helicopters Are Coming - Willem Buiter
• IMF SDR: A Key tool for attacking COVID-19 in developing countries - Brookings
• Brexit not immune to Coronavirus - Brookings
• The Race Between Economics and COVID-19 - Mohamed El-Erian
• How Europe should design a ‘coronabond’ - Martin Sandbu FT.com
• Health Before Wealth: The Economic Logic - Joshua Gans
• Why the Fed’s Bazooka Will Not Stop a Wave of Corporate Defaults - Stein and Della Rocca (CFR)