COVID-Economics Links (April 7)

• Will COVID-19 Remake the World? - Dani Rodrik (PS)
• Navigating the Pandemic Trilemma - Harold James (PS)
• Letter to governments of the G20 nations - VoxEU.org
• Mapping the COVID-19 Recession - Ken Rogoff (PS)
• Will We Flunk Pandemic Economics? - Paul Krugman (NYTimes)
• Beating the Coronavirus Is the Best Stimulus - Frydman and Phelps (WSJ)
• A green recovery - Dirk Schoenmaker (Bruegel)
• When Will the Pandemic Cure Be Worse Than the Disease? - Peter Singer and Michael Plant (PS)
• At War With a Virus - Richard N Haass (PS)
• The Case for Mandatory Face Masks - Shang-Jin Wei (PS)
• Rescuing the labour market in times of COVID-19: Don’t forget new hires! - VoxEU.org
• Lockdown Can’t Last Forever. Here’s How to Lift It.  NYTimes.com
• The United States Needs a ‘Smart Quarantine’ - NYTimes.com
• Fighting COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia: Saving Lives versus Protecting Jobs? - World Bank Blogs
• To fight the COVID pandemic, policymakers must move fast and break taboos - Sonu Kapoor and Willem Buiter (VoxEU.org)
• From Borrowing to Stockpiling: How The Virus Outbreak Changed American Household Consumption - Baker et al (Pro-Market)
• Ensuring global food security in the time of COVID-19 - Cullen Hendrix (PIIE)
• It is decision time for EU leaders—what should fiscal response to pandemic be? - Kirkegaard (PIIE)
• An Early View of the Economic Impact of the Pandemic in 5 Charts - Bluedron, Gopinath and Sandri (IMF)
• Plumbing ideas for crisis abatement - VoxEU.org
• Mitigating mass layoffs in the COVID-19 crisis: Austrian short-time work as international role model - VoxEU.org
• Three things will determine if there's an economic depression - Tim Duy (Bloomberg)
• Stretching the international order to its breaking point - Thomas Wright (Brookings)
• When pandemics come to slums - Vanda Felbab-Brown and Paul Wise (Brookings)
• What macro prudential policies are countries using to help their economies through the COVID-19 crisis? Beneidktsdottir et al (Brookings)
• Social distancing: did individuals act before governments? - Bruegel
• Imperial’s Neil Ferguson: “We don’t have a clear exit strategy” - FT.com
• UK looks to Italy and China for clues on lockdown exit strategy - FT.com
• Japan gambles on partial lockdown to control coronavirus - FT.com
• The EU’s shared purpose requires shared financing - Ana Botin (FT)
• US small business rescue runs into operational difficulties - FT.com
• Austria set to be first European country to ease lockdown  - FT.com
• New York Fed Finds Broad Drop in March Consumer Confidence Amid Crisis - WSJ.com
• New York Fed Says Commercial Paper Facility Will Launch April 14 - WSJ.com
• Coronavirus is unlikely to challenge the dollar’s dominance - FT.com
• Printing money is valid response to coronavirus crisis - FT.com