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Covid-19

“This Crisis Is Different: the Coronavirus Is a Social Disease Which We Need to Tackle as a Community”

Christoph Gisiger
In an extensive interview, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan discusses the pandemic's impact on financial...
Covid-19

The Electoral Effect of the Virus: How the Coronavirus Is Impacting Democratic Primaries

Matt Motta
Compared to 2016, turnout was 22 percent higher (on average) for states voting on Super Tuesday, before Covid-19 emergency measures in the United States....
Covid-19

The Virus Outbreak Changed the Democratic Primaries: Sanders Is Running on Borrowed Time

David Lawsky
Joe Biden swept Florida, Illinois, and Arizona on Tuesday, jumping ahead to 1,173 of the 1,991 delegates he needs to win the presidential nomination....
Covid-19

What the European Union Can Do to Overcome Liquidity Shortages for Firms

Markus Brunnermeier
European institutions can mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus crisis: the European Investment Bank (EIB) can borrow from the European Central Bank (ECB) and...
Covid-19

Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19

Luigi Zingales
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
Covid-19

Populism Weakened the Immune System of Our Democracies. Chile Is an Example

Daniel Matamala
Modern societies have developed immune systems to deal with epidemics: international cooperation, social cohesion, universal health care systems. But today we face the greatest...
Antitrust and Competition

Five Conditions for Corporations About to Receive Coronavirus Bailouts

Matt Stoller
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are getting ready for massive bailouts, so here are the conditions to put on large corporations who need...
Covid-19

This Is Not the Time to Be Cautious. We Need to Contain the Economic Contagion of the Coronavirus

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
The real danger is that the virus mutates and infects our economic system, even as we manage to root it out of our bodies....
Antitrust and Competition

Many Republicans Are Skeptical About Coronavirus. Research Suggests That Republican Politicians Could Change That

Matt Motta
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is skeptical of climate change, supports teaching creationism in public schools, and opposes stem cell research. That's exactly why...
Antitrust and Competition

Keeping Business Alive During the Coronavirus Crisis: Government as Buyer of Last Resort

Emmanuel Saez
The government has to compensate businesses and workers for their losses so that each business can re-emerge almost intact after the hibernation due to...
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