COVID-Economics Links (April 18)

• COVID Inequality Project - Adams-Prassl, Boneva, Golin, Rauh
• EU state aid policies in the time of COVID-19 - Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz (VoxEu.org)
• COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data - Brynjolfsson, Horton, Pzimek, Rock, Sharma and Yi Tu Ye. 
• COVID-19: How far will global merchandise trade fall? - Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE)
• Central bank lending logistics in the war on COVID-19: A primer - Simon Potter (PIIE)
• China's economic growth prospects are worse than during the global financial crisis - Nicholas R. Lardy and Tianlei Huang (PIIE)
• Businesses Are in Uncharted Waters - Brent Meyer and Nick Parker (FRB Atlanta)
• Depression, and not stagflation, could haunt China in 2020 - Alicia Garcia Herrero
• Exiting the great lockdown? - Bruegel
• Dealing with the U.S. economic and public health effects of the coronavirus recession compassionately and with an eye on a strong recovery - Jason Furman (Equitable Growth)
• How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic - Arkebe Oqubay (PS)
• How the Economy Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic - Stiglitz, Shiller, Gopinath and others. (Foreign Policy)
• Targeted social distancing — the way to reopen the economy and keep it open - Simon Johnson and Retsef Levi
• Tracking Labor Market Developments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Assessment - Cajner et al (Board of Governors, US Fed)
• China’s economy: the risk of a second coronavirus wave - FT.com