COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Tim Besley and Sacha Dray | The Political Economy of Lockdown: Does Free Media Make a Difference? | June 2020

Swati Dhingra | Protecting informal workers in urban India: The need for a universal job guarantee | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 2 May 2020

Tim Besley, Ethan Ilzetzki, Xavier Jaravel, Camille Landais and Ricardo Reis | Further Economic Policy Responses to Covid-19 | LSE | April 2020

The Eurozone COVID-19 Crisis: EU Policy Options | The CFM Surveys | 29 April 2020

Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya | From rescue to recovery, to transformation and growth: building a better world after COVID-19 | LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment | 27 April 2020

Nicholas Stern | China’s 14th plan must prioritise low carbon growth to avoid putting decades of economic and social development at risk as its COVID-19 recovery gets underway | LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment | 22 April 2020

Ethan Ilzetzki and Hugo Reichardt | Ramping up ventilator production: Lessons from WWII | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 17 April 2020

Silvana Tenreyro | Monetary policy during pandemics: inflation before, during and after Covid-19 - speech by Silvana Tenreyro | Bank of England | 16 April 2020

Ricardo Reis and Saleem Bahaj | Central bank swap lines during the Covid-19 pandemic | CEPR Press | 8 April 2020

Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman | A Progressive European wealth tax to fund the European COVID response | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 3 April 2020

Camille Landais and Giulia Giupponi | Building effective short-time work schemes for the COVID-19 crisis | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 1 April 2020

Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll and Gianluca Violante | Pandemics According to HANK | 31 March 2020

Ethan Ilzetzki | COVID-19: The economic policy response | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 28 March 2020

Erik Berglof, Tim Besley, Christopher Pissarides, Nicholas Stern are among the signatories | The COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to G20 leaders | VOX CEPR Policy Portal | 26 March 2020

Ricardo Reis, Markus Brunnermeier, Jean-Pierre Landau and Marco Pagano | Throwing a Covid-19 Liquidity Life-Line | 17 March 2020

Swati Dhingra | It’s time to refresh old ideas like universal job guarantee | hindustantimes | 4 May 2020 

Ricardo Reis | The Economics of Coronavirus: A Reading List | Five Books | April 2020

Christopher Pissarides, Pietro Garibaldi & Espen R. Moen | Lessons from the Economic-Epidemiological Frontier | Project Syndicate | 29 April 2020

Ananda Lal Roy and Maitreesh Ghatak | The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them | The India Forum | 28 April 2020 

Mervyn King | King: Ending U.K. Lockdown will be Trial and Error | Bloomberg | 27 April 2020

Erik Berglof | Global leaders issue call to action on COVID-19 | CNBC Africa | 22 April 2020

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin | Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor | LSE Business Review | 21 April 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak | The Reader: Step up action to ease poverty amid this crisis | Evening Standard | 21 April 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak, Xavier Jaravel and Jonathan Weigel | The World Has a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here’s How to Solve It | The New York Times | 20 April 2020

Manuela Saragosa, Paul Lewis, Ricardo Reis, Ila Patnaik, Oluwatosin Olaseinde, Bola Sokunbi and Jürgen Stock | The Coronavirus and Your Money | BBC World Service | 18 April 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak, Rahul Tandon, Andrew Walker, Victoria Craig | India PM announces lockdown extension | BBC World Business Report | 14 April 2020

John Van Reenen | We talked to one of MIT’s best economists about the covid-19 recession | MIT Technology Review | 14 April 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak | Coronavirus Will Upend the 'Profits Over People' Mantra of Globalisation | The Wire | 4 April 2020

Keyu Jin | Is This China’s Global Leadership Moment? | Project Syndicate | 3 April 2020

Ricardo Reis | How do countries differ in their response to the coronavirus economic crisis? | The Guardian | 3 April 2020

Charles Bean | The economics of coronavirus | LSE Business Review | 30 March 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak | 3 Points Of Concern On Government's Much-Needed Economic Package | NDTV | 28 March 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak, Kate Raworth, Winnie Byanyima | Coronavirus: How will it change us? | BBC World Service | 27 March 2020

Stephen Machin | Universal Credit applications | 26 March 2020

Richard Layard | Covid-19: We shouldn’t give priority to sustaining the GDP over the wellbeing of the people | LSE Business Review | 25 March 2020

Maitreesh Ghatak | The crumbling of India's economy | hindustantimes | 24 March 2020

Mervyn King, Mohamed El-Erian, James Bullard | How Bad Could a Global Recession Get? | Bloomberg | 23 March 2020

Erik Berglof | A Pandemic Strategy as Global as COVID-19 | Project Syndicate | 19 March 2020

Ricardo Reis among the speakers | The State of the Union, Europe: Managing the COVID-19 Crisis | 8 May 2020

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Paul Collier, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan Leape | Global leadership to support Africa’s response to Covid-19 | 29 April 2020

Christopher Pissarides, Min Zhu, Long Chen, Cheng Lei | COVID-19: Throwing SMEs and Employment a Lifeline | Luohan Academy | 26 April 2020

Tim Besley, Daron Acemoglu and Jean Tirole | Economic approaches for analysing the short, medium term and long run impact of the COVID-19 crisis | Royal Economic Society | 9 April 2020

Tim Besley, Kaushik Basu, Dani Rodrik, Haroon Bhorat, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Ashwini Deshpande, Albert Zeufack | Developing Nations and COVID-19 | Royal Economic Society | 23 April 2020

Erik Berglof, Ricardo Reis and Barry Eichengreen | The Three Horsemen: Pandemic, War and Depression in the 20^th Century | The LSE Institute of Global Affairs | 17 April 2020

Gordon Brown, Minouche Shafik, Lawrence H. Summers, Andrés Velasco and Erik Berglof | Now or Never: crafting the global COVID-19 response | LSE Institute of Global Affairs and the LSE School of Public Policy | 21 April 2020

Masood Ahmed, Melani Cammett, Stephen Hertog, Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, Erik Berglof | Covid-19 and the Social Contract in North Africa and the Middle East | LSE Institute of Global Affairs, LSE School of Public Policy and LSE Middle East Centre | 23 April 2020