Robert Rowthorn,Jan Maciejowski
Robert Rowthorn
The British government has been debating how to escape from the lockdown without provoking a resurgence of the COVID-19 disease. There is a growing recognition of the damage the lockdown has caused to economic and social life. This paper pr...
Business in times of crisis [0.03%]
危机时期的企业经营
Mary Johnstone-Louis,Bridget Kustin,Colin Mayer et al.
Mary Johnstone-Louis et al.
Government bailouts of corporate sectors in the COVID-19 crisis are part of a tripartite arrangement between government, business and institutional investors. Business should respond to the changing preferences of customers, employees and s...
Mariana Mazzucato,Rainer Kattel
Mariana Mazzucato
The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and capacity-too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align public services and citizen needs; capacity to govern resilien...
Supply and demand shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic: an industry and occupation perspective [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情中的供需冲击：行业与职业视角
R Maria Del Rio-Chanona,Penny Mealy,Anton Pichler et al.
R Maria Del Rio-Chanona et al.
We provide quantitative predictions of first-order supply and demand shocks for the US economy associated with the COVID-19 pandemic at the level of individual occupations and industries. To analyse the supply shock, we classify industries ...
Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries [0.03%]
新冠肺炎危机下的社会保护应对措施——发展中国家的选择性策略分析报告摘要
François Gerard,Clément Imbert,Kate Orkin
François Gerard
The public health response to COVID-19 in many countries has involved strict restrictions on movement and economic activity which threaten the livelihoods of economically vulnerable households. In response, governments are adopting emergenc...
What is the meaning of (statistical) life? Benefit-cost analysis in the time of COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的生命意义何在？成本效益分析面临的挑战与机遇
Jonathan Colmer
Jonathan Colmer
Efforts to support public policy decisions need to be conducted carefully and thoughtfully. Recent efforts to estimate the social benefits of reductions in mortality risks associated with COVID-19 interventions are likely understated. There...
Reforming the UK financial system to promote regional development in post-COVID Britain [0.03%]
后新冠疫情时代英国金融体系改革与区域发展促进政策研究
Paul Collier,Colin Mayer
Paul Collier
The UK government faces a massive post-COVID problem in restructuring failing companies and rebuilding its already depressed regions. A missing part of the solution is to link government as well as private-sector funding to the financing of...
Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
疫情期间的性别差异：男士开始尝试承担育儿责任
Almudena Sevilla,Sarah Smith
Almudena Sevilla
The nature and scale of the shocks to the demand for, and the supply of, home childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of the division of home labour and the determinants of specializ...
Global macroeconomic cooperation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a roadmap for the G20 and the IMF [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的宏观经济合作：二十国集团和国际货币基金组织的行动路线图
Warwick McKibbin,David Vines
Warwick McKibbin
The COVID-19 crisis has caused the greatest collapse in global economic activity since 1720. Some advanced countries have mounted a massive fiscal response, both to pay for disease-fighting action and to preserve the incomes of firms and wo...
Gordon Brown,Daniel Susskind
Gordon Brown
This paper explores the concept of 'global public goods' (GPGs) in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that many of the tasks involved in public health, and in particular those involved in the control of an infectious di...