Blogs, Opinions and Academic papers
- Negative interest rate policy in the post COVID-19 world - Andrew Lilley, Kenneth Rogoff (VoxEU.org)
- Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers - Issue 6, CEPR
- Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers - Issue 5, CEPR
- Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing: Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries - Chudik, Pesaran and Rebucci
- Ramping up ventilator production: Lessons from WWII - Ethan Ilzetzki, Hugo Reichardt (VoxEU.org)
- Propagation of the economic impact of lockdowns through supply chains - Hiroyasu Inoue, Yasuyuki Todo (VoxEU.org)
- Ensuring state continuity during the coronavirus pandemic - Ed Olowo-Okere (World Bank)
- Eurobonds (or coronabonds) would not be costly for Northern euro area countries - Matthias Weber (LSE Blog)
- Economic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Time of COVID-19 - Alejandro Werner (IMF)
- Latin America Confronts the Coronavirus - Fernando Henrique Cardoso et al. (PS)
- America Is Having an Unemployment Apocalypse. Europe Chose Not to. Simon Tilford (FP)
- The coronavirus recession and economic inequality: A roadmap to recovery and long-term structural change - Heather Boushey and Somin Park (Equitable Growth)
- Figures of the week: The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Africa - Payce Madden (Brookings)
- The OBR’s assumption that life will return to normal is optimistic - Chris Giles (FT)
- Bringing the Economy Back to Life - Robert E Rubin (NYTimes)
News and Policy Announcements
- IMFC Statement - Christine Lagarde (ECB)
- Reflections on regulatory responses to the Covid-19 pandemic - Claudio Borio and Fernando Restoy (BIS)
- Bank of Canada announces increase in the amount of Government of Canada treasury bills it acquires at auction - Bank of Canada
- Wall Street prepares for a wave of loan losses - The Economist
- How deep will downturns in rich countries be? - The Economist
- American jobless claims mount to 22m since shutdowns - FT.com
- How will China handle its EM debtors in virus crisis? - FT.com
- Covid-19 shuts down a quarter of UK businesses - FT.com
- China’s economy shrinks for first time in four decades - FT.com
- Rates are flat as Federal Reserve’s intervention calms mortgage market - Washington Post
- U.S. now has 22 million unemployed, wiping out a decade of job gains - Washington Post
- Scale of eurozone recession is hard to predict, says Lagarde - FT.com
- Who will do the spending to pull the economy from the gutter? - Washington Post