COVID-Economics Daily Links (May 2)

• How to Avoid a W-Shaped Recession - Jeffrey Frankel (PS)
• Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 12 - CEPR
• Leaders' speech and risky behaviour during a pandemic - Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata (VoxEU)
• How did COVID-19 disrupt the market for U.S. Treasury debt? - Jeffrey Cheng, David Wessel, and Joshua Younger (Brookings)
• Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19? Not the female economists - Noriko Amano-Patiño, Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Zeina Hasna  (VoxEU)
• An Estimate of the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Australia - Flavio Romano (SSRN)
• COVID-19 Caused 3 New Hires for Every 10 Layoffs - David Altog et al (FRB of Atlanta)
• Mandated and targeted social isolation policies flatten the COVID19 curve and can help mitigate the associated employment losses - Alexander Chudik, M. Hashem Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci  (VoxEU)
• Life after lockdown: welcome to the empty-chair economy - FT
• Turkish lira succumbs to pressure and weakens past 7 to dollar - FT
• Coronavirus Prompts Biggest U.S. Manufacturing Pullback Since Last Recession - WSJ