How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…
Unemployment insurance has played a critical role in the US economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. It has been greatly expanded,…
This policy brief reviews the findings of the longest-running independent effort to track Chinese citizen satisfaction of government…
Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP. Focusing on European countries that have…
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed…
In this paper, we develop a heterogeneous agent general equilibrium framework to analyze optimal joint policies of a lockdown and transfer…
The threat of COVID-19 has increased the health risks of going to an office or factory, leading more workers to do their jobs remotely. In…
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed…
Although confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining in the Northeastern states that have been hardest hit by the pandemic, in other…
Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows,…