COVID-Economics Links (May 4)

• The Case for Deeply Negative Interest Rates - Kenneth Rogoff (PS)
• Supporting people and companies to deal with the COVID-19 virus - OECD
• A trade bargain to secure supplies of medical goods - Simon Evenett, L Alan Winters (VoxEU)
• Debt restructuring in the time of COVID-19: Private and official agreements - Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi (VoxEU)
• The case for a new Marshall Plan - Alexia Delfino, Raffaella Sadun (VoxEU)
• You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink - Tim Duy
• Hunger amid plenty: How to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most vulnerable people - Mari Elka Pangestu
• Covid-19 and social distancing: Accounting for individual actions could change the way lockdowns are designed - Miltos Makris (VoxEU)
• The ECB can ease Italian debt worries without risking inflation - Carlo Cottarelli (FT)
• When the Markets Get COVID: COntagion, Viruses, and Information Diffusion - Mariano Massimiliano Croce, Paolo Farroni and Isabella Wolfskeil (CEPR DP)
• Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys - Abigail Adams, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin and Christopher Rauh (CEPR DP)
• April Jobs Report Likely to Show Highest Unemployment Rate on Record - WSJ
• The Real Reason to Wear a Mask - The Atlantic
• Swedish bosses urge Europe not to waste opportunity from Covid-19 - FT
• Without child care, the economy won’t restart - Washington Post
• Banks to book more than $50bn against bad loans - FT
• A solution to the looming debt crisis in emerging markets - FT
• Virus-hit economies brace for second wave of job losses - FT