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“Containment policies…account for roughly half the observed change in the growth rates of cases and deaths”, find
@VC31415
, Hiro Kasahara & Paul Schrimpf
#CovidEconomics
#EconTwitter
Monica de Bolle of
@PIIE
, discusses why
#nationalist
leaders may be benefiting from a surge of popularity during the current crisis, but in a post-
#Covid19
world, they are likely to be held to account for poor
#policy
decisions by the electorate:
@bollemdb
Marx & followers were partially accurate on the effects of capital accumulation on income inequality, yet underestimated the potential for institutional adjustments within a capitalist society.
@CharlyBartels
@DIW_Berlin_en
, F Kersting, N Wolf
@HumboldtUni
Policies increasing minimum wages are ineffective, if they result in reductions in working hours, unless welfare/tax credit policies balance them -an example of using
#microdata
to inform
#policy
from Richard Blundell
@R_Blundell_UCL
@EconUCL
video
@voxeu
Women are substantially under-represented in the field of
#Economics
. A new CEPR/VoxEU book, edited by
@ShellyJLundberg
, shows how
#Women
face clear barriers to field entry & professional success that are distinct from those in other maths-focused fields -
Susan Dynarski
@dynarski
talking to
@voxeu
at
#AEA2019
:
@UMich
piloted a scheme to specifically target
#low
-income high school students with info about their promise of 4 years free
#college
and more than doubled applications from that group
@sguriev
@EBRD
explains why the
#European
value chain model works well for participating countries, and shows how in the
#COVID19
crisis, even seemingly largely self-sufficient countries such as the
#US
are found to be reliant on external sources -
20
#economists
and global
#health
experts have one simple message: this
#crisis
is global and requires unprecedented cooperation across countries and disciplines.
=> The COVID-19 pandemic: A letter to
#G20
leaders <=
#covid
-19
Weekend watching
Reliance on
#GDP
as a measure of
#economics
progress fails to take into account that the economy is no longer production-based but instead a
#ServiceEconomy
- a better metric could be built around how people use their time
@DianeCoyle1859
Russia under sanctions. The political economy of Putin's war in Ukraine
Sanctions against Russia continue to multiply.
@sguriev
of
@ScPoEcon
discusses what will their effect be on the Russian state and its people?
#Russia
#Ukraine
#Sanctions
“Central bank digital currencies would not only have domestic macroeconomic and financial implications for the issuing economy, they would also have implications for the rest of the world,” according to this column
#EconTwitter
Monetisation: Do not panic
The
#covid
-19 crisis has raised fears that large-scale monetisation will result in a major inflation episode,
@pisaniferry
@sciencespo
&
@ojblanchard1
@PIIE
think central banks are doing the right thing and see no reason to panic
"Modern (post-1980) academic macroeconomics has not been of much practical use to economic policymakers”
- Narayana Kocherlakota in a Practical Macroeconomic Policy Evaluation
Women are substantially under-represented in the field of
#Economics
. Our CEPR/VoxEU book, edited by
@ShellyJLundberg
, shows how
#Women
face clear barriers to field entry & professional success that are distinct from those in other maths-focused fields:
“Applying machine learning to rich historical data sources provides the opportunity to draw novel insights for fields such as urban and spatial economics,” say authors of this column
#EconTwitter
Credit supply and housing speculation|Loose credit boosted prices during the boom, and tight credit exacerbated the bust. Credit fluctuations and asset price fluctuations are closely connected|
@AtifRMian
@Princeton
, Amir Sufi
@profsufi
@ChicagoBooth
|
In this
#VoxEU
video
@ufukakcigit
@UChicago
explains that a key factor in the observed decline in
#Business
dynamism in the
#US
is the lack of knowledge diffusion from leader to follower
#Firms
. New technologies need to be diffused widely in order for the
#Economy
to benefit...
“Due to differences in labour market informality, fiscal capacity, healthcare infrastructure, and demographics, blanket lockdowns appear less effective in developing countries”, say
@TitanAlon
,
@LagakosDavid
et al.
#CovidEconomics
#EconTwitter
Revisiting the rise of
#Italian
fascism
Daron Acemoğlu, Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca, Gianluca Russo
@DrDaronAcemoglu
presents the paper in this video from
@cepr_org
's Political Economy Webinar Series
To celebrate the joint winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics we are republishing key
@voxeu
columns from each of them.
#NobelPrize
From August 2010: Cutting the corruption tax: A way out for Greece
Paul Romer
@paulmromer
@NYUStern