Publication Series
COVID-19: Featured Content
Book
Economics in the Time of COVID-19
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- COVID-19
- Introduction: Economics in the Time of COVID-19
- Macroeconomics of the flu
- Tackling the fallout from COVID-19
- The economic impact of COVID-19
- Novel coronavirus hurts the Middle East and North Africa through many channels
- Thinking ahead about the trade impact of COVID-19
- Finance in the times of coronavirus
- Contagion: Bank runs and COVID-19
- Real and financial lenses to assess the economic consequences of COVID-19
- As coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?
- Trade and travel in the time of epidemics
- On plague in a time of Ebola
- Coronavirus monetary policy
- The economic effects of a pandemic
- The good thing about coronavirus
Book
Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes
- Introduction: Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes
- So far, so good: And now don't be afraid of moral hazard
- Flattening the pandemic and recession curves
- Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus with large targeted policies
- Italy, the ECB, and the need to avoid another euro crisis
- The EU must support the member at the centre of the COVID-19 crisis
- Helicopter money: The time is now
- What the stock market tells us about the consequences of COVID-19
- Ten keys to beating back COVID-19 and the associated economic pandemic
- Saving China from the coronavirus and economic meltdown: Experiences and lessons
- China's changing economic priorities and the impact of COVID-19
- Singapore's policy response to COVID-19
- The experience of South Korea with COVID-19
- COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan
- The COVID-19 bazooka for jobs in Europe
- The monetary policy package: An analytical framework
- Bold policies needed to counter the coronavirus recession
- Europe ís ground zero
- Economic implications of the COVID-19 crisis for Germany and economic policy measures
- Finance in the times of COVID-19: What next?
- How COVID-19 could be like the Global Financial Crisis (or worse)
- Protecting people now, helping the economy rebound later
- Policy in the time of coronavirus
- Containing the economic nationalist virus through global coordination
- The case for permanent stimulus
Book
COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work
- Introduction: COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work
- How trade can fight the pandemic and contribute to global health
- COVID-19: Demand spikes, export restrictions, and quality concerns imperil poor country access to medical supplies
- Flawed prescription: Export curbs on medical goods wonít tackle shortages
- COVID-19: Expanding access to essential supplies in a value chain world
- COVID-19: Export controls and international cooperation
- Trade policy and food security
- Export restrictions in times of pandemic: Options and limits under international trade agreements
- Global supply chains will not be the same in the post-COVID-19 world
- Resilience versus robustness in global value chains: Some policy implications
- Will the post-COVID world be less open to foreign direct investment?
- An unintended crisis in sea transportation due to COVID-19 restrictions
- Exposing governments swimming naked in the COVID-19 crisis with trade policy transparency (and why WTO reform matters more than
- What's next for protectionism? Watch out for state largesse, especially export incentives
Book
Europe in the Time of Covid-19
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- COVID-19 
- EU Economic Architecture
- EU solidarity in fighting COVID-19: State of play, obstacles, citizens’ attitudes, and ways forward
- The EU needs an independent public health authority to fight pandemics such as the COVID-19 crises
- Corporate debt burdens threaten economic recovery after COVID-19: Planning for debt restructuring should start now
- Coronavirus and financial stability 3.0: Try equity – risk sharing for companies, large and small
- Corona and Financial Stability 4.0: Implementing a European Pandemic Equity Fund
- The European Commission’s SURE initiative and euro area unemployment re-insurance
- Immigrant key workers in Europe: The COVID-19 response that comes from abroad
- EU state aid policies in the time of COVID-19
- The EU recovery fund: An opportunity for change
- Green bridges: Reconnecting Europe to avoid economic disaster
- European bank regulators aren’t yet doing what it takes
- The coronavirus shock to financial stability
- IFRS 9 and COVID-19: Delay and freeze the transitional arrangements clock
- Unintended effects of loan guarantees during the Covid-19 crisis
- COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan
- A progressive European wealth tax to fund the European COVID response
- EU solidarity in exceptional times: Corona transfers instead of Coronabonds
- Coronataxes as a solution
- A proposal for a Covid Credit Line
- The ESM can finance the COVID fight now
- Maturity, seniority and size: Make sure the ESM’s pandemic crisis support is fit for purpose!
- COVID-19: A euro area safe asset and fiscal capacity are needed now
- Corona bonds – great idea but complicated in reality
- ESM loans or Coronabonds: A legal analysis from the German perspective
- Sharing the fiscal burden of the crisis: A Pandemic Solidarity Instrument for the EU
- COVID-19 economic crisis: Europe needs more than one instrument
- The economic, political and moral case for a European fiscal policy response to COVID-19
- Coronabonds: The forgotten history of European Community debt
- Towards a European Reconstruction Fund
- The EU response to the coronavirus crisis: How to get more bang for the buck
- Perpetual bonds are not the best way to finance the European Recovery Fund
- Helicopter money: The time is now
- Covid Perpetual Eurobonds: Jointly guaranteed and supported by the ECB
- Breaking the taboo: The political economy of COVID-motivated helicopter drops
- COVID-19: OMT is second-best, but still welcome
- To fight the COVID pandemic, policymakers must move fast and break taboos
- Make room for fiscal action through debt conversion
VoxEU Talk
Covid-19’s impact on innovation
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- COVID-19 
- Productivity and Innovation
All Content
VoxEU Talk
Covid-19’s impact on innovation
- Carsten Fink
- Reinhilde Veugelers interviewed by
- Tim Phillips
The Covid crisis inspired extraordinary innovation. Carsten Fink and Reinhilde Veugelers are two of the editors of a new ebook from CEPR called Resilience and Ingenuity that examines how countries, organisations and industries were able to innovate. Tim Phillips asks them what worked, what didn’t, and whether we can keep up the pace of new ideas.