COVID-Economics Links (April 3)

Daily list of Links:

• The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption - Abaluck et al.
• How do we value a statistical life? - Tim Harford (FT)
• COVID-19 Response White Papers - Center for Ethics Harvard Univ.
• Notes on the Coronacoma - Paul Krugman (NYTimes)
• The Value of Opacity in a Banking Crisis - Anderson and Copeland (NY Fed)
• The asset markets and the coronavirus pandemic - VoxEU.org
• Fed's bond-buying world records in responding to COVID-19 drew on planning, training, and infrastructure - PIIE
• Europe should seize oil price windfall to fund its pandemic response - PIIE
• Coronavirus and financial stability - VoxEU.org
• The dollar and international capital flows in the COVID-19 crisis - VoxEU.org
• Some micro/macro insights on the economics of coronavirus - VoxEU.org
• Why testing offers a way to end the lockdowns - FT.com
• Latin America faces both the pandemic and its economic consequences - World Bank Blogs
• The Danger of No Antitrust Enforcement: How a Merger Led to the US Ventilator Shortage - Matt Stoller (Pro-Market)
• Urgent action is needed to help the world’s poorest - FT.com
• Two things state and local governments can do to mitigate the coronavirus recession in the United States - Yair Listokin
• A temporary, common fiscal stimulus to answer the mayhem of COVID-19 - Francesco Papadia (Bruegel)
• COVID-19 hitting the nation's largest metros, making a restart more difficult - Brookings
• States will need more fiscal relief. Brookings
• The Four Rules of Pandemic Economics - The Atlantic
• Brookings experts on the $2 trillion package - Brookings
• IFRS 9 and COVID-19: Delay and freeze the transitional arrangements clock - VoxEU.org
• The toothless inflation peril - Martin Sandbu (FT.com)
• A progressive European wealth tax to fund the European COVID response - VoxEU.org