COVID-Economics Links (April 13)

Blogs, Opinions and Academic papers

• The impact of COVID-19 on chronic health in the UK - Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, Kalvinder Shields, Michael A Shields (VoxEU.org)
• Safety First: Expanding the Global Financial Safety Net in Response to COVID-19 - BU Global Development Policy Center
• Poverty and Economic Dislocation Reduces Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Protocols - Austin L. Wright, Konstantin Sonin, Jesse Driscoll and Jarnickae Wilson
• COVID-induced economic uncertainty and its consequences Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Terry (VoxEU.org)
• Using Quantitative Models to Guide Policy Amid COVID-19 Uncertainty - Lars Peter Hansen
• COVID, remobilisation and the ‘stringency possibility corridor’: Creating wealth while protecting health - Richard Baldwin (VoxEU.org)
• How the next euro crisis could unfold - Wolfgang Munchau (FT)
• Some Countries Face an Awful Question: Death by Coronavirus or by Hunger? - Ruchir Sharma (NYTimes)
• The US’ reliance on other countries for essential medical equipment - Fernando Leibovici, Ana Maria Santacreu, Makenzie Peake (VoxEU.org)
• Anatomy of the Coronavirus Collapse, Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu (PS)

News

• Global economy already set for historic contraction - FT.com
• Turkey rejects any suggestion of IMF help - FT.com
• Should the IMF dole out more special drawing rights? - The Economist
• Vestager urges stakebuilding to block Chinese takeovers - FT.com
• G20 nations close in on debt deal for poor countries - FT.com