Blogs, Opinions and Academic papers
- COVID-19: Trump’s curbs on exports of medical gear put Americans and others at risk - Chad Bown (PIIE)
- Special Series on COVID-19 - IMF Fiscal Affairs Department
- Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers - 3rd issue -- CEPR
- Lessons from the Ebola crisis on dealing with Covid-19 - VoxEU.org
- The Human-Capital Costs of the Crisis - Barry Eichengreen (PS)
- Pandemic Socialism - Willem Buiter (PS)
- COVID, remobilisation and the ‘stringency possibility corridor’ - Richard Baldwin (VoxEU.org)
- Enhancing central bank cooperation in the COVID-19 pandemic - Collins, Potter and Truman (PIIE)
- The COVID-19 Default Time Bomb - Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Chang-Tai Hsieh (PS)
- Africa Needs Debt Relief to Fight COVID-19 - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Brahima Coulibaly (PS)
- How large is the coronavirus macro shock? - Elga Bartsch, Jean Boivin and Philipp Hildebrand
- Social distancing unlikely to hold up in Africa without a safety net for microentrepreneurs - Addisu Lashitew (Brookings)
- A Global COVID-19 Exit Strategy Ngaire Woods and Rajaie Batniji (PS)
- Monetary financing demands careful and sober management- Martin Wolf (FT)
News
- Fed balance sheet increases to record $6.13 trillion - Reuters
- India’s push to ramp up virus testing threatened by court ruling - FT.com
- With $2.3 Trillion Injection, Fed’s Plan Far Exceeds Its 2008 Rescue - NYTimes.com
- IMF, World Bank Face Deluge of Aid Requests From Developing World - WSJ.com
- IMF boosts emergency lending capacity to $100bn - FT.com
- Powell Pledges Aggressive Fed Action - WSJ.com
- U.S. Jobless Claims Soar for Third Straight Week - WSJ.com
- Italy’s Debt Is Less Terrifying Than It Looks - Washington Post
- ECB dissenters resisted Christine Lagarde’s ‘no limits’ virus response - FT.com
- Amazon developing in-house Covid-19 testing lab - FT.com