The reduction in €-coin observed so far only reflects the initial effects of the fall in share prices and the widespread deterioration in business and consumer confidence that occurred in the second half of March in connection with the spread of the pandemic across euro-area countries.
CEPR has decided to launch a new online publication to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. Very quickly after the onset of the epidemic a large number of policy papers have been written by economic scholars, many of which have appeared on VoxEU. This has been enormously helpful to improve our understanding of policy options. The next step requires more formal investigations, based on explicit theory and/or empirical evidence. This is what Covid Economics:Vetted and Real-Time Papers aims to provide.
CEPR Discussion Papers 29 March 2020: 22 new Discussion Papers
Weekly research highlights from CEPR and VoxEU.org
CEPR Research Fellow Philippe Aghion and colleague Peter Howitt awarded the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management.
CEPR Discussion Papers 22 March 2020: 29 new Discussion Papers
A CEPR study by Elizabeth Brainerd and Mark V Siegler examines the effects of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic on subsequent economic growth using data from a sample of US states.
Weekly research highlights from CEPR and VoxEU.org
Top economists call for decisive and coordinated fiscal policy interventions to counter economic damage from the global pandemic
A new CEPR Policy Insight by World Bank economists M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara, examines the current build-up of debt in emerging and developing countries, which is unprecendented in its size, speed, and reach.