COVID-Economics Links (April 4)

Daily list of links

• Data needs for shutdown policy - James Stock
• Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? - Guerrieri, Lorenzoni, Straub and Werning
• ESM loans or Coronabonds: A legal analysis from the German perspective - VoxEU.org
• Making the Fight against the Coronavirus Pandemic Sustainable - Group of German Scientists
• Preparing for post-pandemic financial reckoning - Patrick Honahan
• Why We Can Be Optimistic About the Long-Term Impact of the “Covid Economy” - Wojciech Kopczuk (Pro Market)
• Will inflation make a comeback after the crisis ends? VoxEU.org
• The responses of consumption and prices in Japan to the COVID-19 crisis and the Tohoku earthquake - VoxEU.org
• How do countries differ in their response to the coronavirus economic crisis? Ricardo Reis
• Remittances in times of the coronavirus – keep them flowing - World Bank Blogs
• COVID-19: Forecasting with Slow and Fast Data - St Louis Fed
• The G20 must step up to confront the global health crisis - PIIE
• Basel regulators loosen bank capital rules to keep credit flowing - FT.com
• The eurozone’s ‘whatever it takes’ mantra has a problem - FT.com
• Global economy set for sharpest reversal since Great Depression - FT.com
• First Jobs Day report since the onset of the coronavirus recession exposes a U.S. labor market in crisis - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• How COVID-19 Is Transforming Manufacturing - Dalia Marin
• Labor Market in March Deteriorated much more quickly than the unemployment rate suggests - Brookings
• Three imperatives to keep food moving in a time of fear and confusion - World Bank Blogs
• When borders close, who will pick the crops? - The Economist
• The Economy Is Ruined. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way - The Atlantic
• We are already in a recession: Can we make it a short one? - Jay Shambaugh (Brookings)
• Economics catching up with medicine and natural sciences - Wyplosz (VoxEU.org)