COVID-Economics Links (April 15)

• The three ways fiscal policy can be used to fight COVID-19 and the coronavirus recession - Olivier Blanchard
• Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers (4th issue), CEPR
• A long-run view on the Coronabonds debate: The forgotten history of European Community debt - Sebastian Horn, Josefin Meyer, Christoph Trebesch (VoxUE.org)
• Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 - Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Chad Jones
• National governments have gone big. The IMF and World Bank need to do the same - Gordon Brown and Lawrence Summers
• Economic Fallout from the COVID-19 Crisis on Developing Economies - Megan Greene and Michael Klein
• COVID-19 and the privacy tradeoff - Jean Pisani-Ferry (PIIE)
• COVID-19 Crisis Poses Threat to Financial Stability - Tobias Adrian and Fabio Natalucci (IMF)
• The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression - Gita Gopinath (IMF)
• Labour markets during the Covid-19 crisis: A preliminary view - Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber (VoxUE.org)
• On the Optimal ‘Lockdown’ during an Epidemic - Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Dirk Niepelt
• Some myths about government debt and how it is financed - Simon Wren-Lewis
• The Great Whiplash - Kaushik Basu
• COVID-19 uncertainty and the IMF - Douglas A. Rediker and Heidi Crebo-Rediker (Brookings)
• Planning for the economic recovery from COVID-19: A sustainability checklist for policymakers Stephen Hammer and Stephen Hammer (World Bank)
• The world economy is now collapsing - Martin Wolf (FT)
• America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One? - Anne Case and Angus Deaton (NYTimes)
• Saving the Developing World from COVID-19 - Mohamed A. El-Erian (PS)
• Is the United States reneging on international financial standards? - Nicolas Veron (PIIE)
• Unintended effects of loan guarantees during the Covid-19 crisis - Giorgio Gobbi, Francesco Palazzo, Anatoli Segura (VoxUE.org)
• All in it together, but with differences: The finances of European households through the pandemic - Romina Gambacorta, Alfonso Rosolia, Francesca Zanichelli (VoxUE.org)