May 15, 2020, Opinion, "The pandemic is amplifying the risk of a world-wide food-price spike, which would trigger outright crises in many…
May 15, 2020, Video, "In this Facebook Live Q&A, Harvard Chan epidemiologist Michael Mina reviewed antibody testing in the U.S., and…
May 15, 2020, Video, "Speakers discuss the U.S. national debt and potential for an impending debt crisis, particularly given recent multi-…
Countercyclical fiscal policy generally focuses on national economic downturns. But US states experience significantly different patterns…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…
May 10, 2020, Video, "Former Fed chairman Larry Summers tells Fareed how he sees the global economy and that of the US adapting to a post-…
May 13, 2020, Video, "The Macroeconomic Response to Covid - 19: What is Working, What is not working and Where to go from here? In his…
May 14, 2020, Paper, "Governments worldwide have taken steps to bolster their venture capital sectors in response to the COVID-19 crisis.…
We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure…
May 13, 2020, Video, "Harvard and Stanford historian Niall Ferguson with the cold facts on the recovery that will be needed to repair the…