As governments and institutions around the world take emergency action to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, economists are doing their part by analyzing the economic impact of the pandemic, and by exploring policy interventions that can minimize that impact.
Here we collect articles and research by Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors on topics related to the economics of coronavirus. Entries are listed chronologically beginning with the most recent.
Most recent analysis
- 14.04 | “Els que no han estat a primera línia hauran de treballar més” (RAC1, in Catalan)
Andreu Mas-Colell (UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 13.04 | El mundo que viene. Entre lo que no acaba de morir y lo que aún está naciendo (CRES Policy Papers, in Spanish)
Guillem López-Casasnovas (UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 12.04 | El coronavirus fa més atractiu el sector del totxo (El Món, in Catalan)
José García-Montalvo (UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 11.04 | “Tornar ara a la feina l’única cosa que farà és allargar la crisi” (Vilaweb, in Catalan)
Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 09.04 | “A largo plazo, los cambios laborales por el coronavirus pueden facilitar la igualdad de género” (El Diario, in Spanish)
Libertad González (UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 08.04 | Logistics and COVID-19 crisis (UPF)
Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço (UPF and Barcelona GSE) - 07.04 | La salida: Retomar el trabajo (Fugong Fuchan) (AES Blog, in Spanish)
Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al. - 06.04 | Emerging Evidence of a Silver Lining: A Ridge Walk to Avoid an Economic Catastrophe in Italy and Spain (also in Spanish on Nada Es Gratis)
Christopher Busch (MOVE-UAB and Barcelona GSE), Alexander Ludwig (Goethe University Frankfurt), Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis (UAB and Barcelona GSE) - 06.04 | The ESM can finance the COVID-19 fight right now (VoxEU)
Ramon Marimon (UPF and Barcelona GSE) with Aitor Erce and Antonio Garcia Pascual - 06.04 | European economic policy for the COVID-19 crisis: Views of leading economists on lockdowns, Coronabonds and the ECB’s role (VoxEU)
includes Chicago Booth IGM Forum poll comments by Jan Eeckhout (UPF and Barcelona GSE), Xavier Freixas (UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)