Blogs, Opinions and Academic papers
- COVID-19 will raise inequality if past pandemics are a guide - Furceri, Loungani, Ostry, and Pizzuto (VoxEU)
- The U.S. Labor Market During the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession - Cajner et al
- COVID-19 crisis in the euro area: recession or “double-peak” expansion? - CEPR-EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee
- Figures of the week: The costs of financing Africa’s response to COVID-19 - Chris Heitzig (Brookings)
- Two months before the cliff - Catarina Midoes (Bruegel)
- The possible shapes of recoveries in Markov-switching models - Bouabdallah and Ferrara
- Income Assistance for Low-Income Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis - Levine and Schanzenbach (Econofact)
- Export controls: America’s other national security threat - Chad P. Bown (PIIE)
- Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 15 - CEPR
- US States Need Federal Funding to Combat the Pandemic - Laura Tyson (PS)
- COVID Economic Tracker - Economic Tracker
News
- Emerging markets launch QE, too - The Economist
- Brazil approves quantitative easing to fight coronavirus woes - FT
- Economists question BoE’s overly rosy view of V-shaped recovery - FT
- Two-Year Treasury Yield Now at Record Low - WSJ
- Losses by central banks are nothing to fear - The Economist
- Economic Fallout From Coronavirus Puts Euro to the Test - WSJ
- US jobless claims of 3.2m take total pandemic toll beyond 33m - FT
- Christine Lagarde says ECB is ‘undeterred’ by German court challenge - FT
- Coronavirus Crisis Has Made Even Global Banks Local - WSJ
- How Dollar Distress Migrated to Asia - WSJ