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Coronavirus is No Excuse for Repeating Errors of Financial Crisis

Patrick Honohan In facing the sharp economic crisis that is spinning out of the pandemic, European fiscal and monetary policymakers must not forget lessons learned in the 10 years since the euro area crisis got under way. There can be no excuse for repeating the errors that were made then. Read more> 
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How the Fed Can Use Its Bank Prudential Authorities to Support the Economy and the Flow of Credit

Jeremy C. Stein, Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam The Federal Reserve’s supervisory and regulatory functions need to begin acting immediately to buy insurance against the risk of large bank losses which have been made more likely by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more> 
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Why the World Needs a COVID-19 Vaccine Price Guarantee

Peter DeMarzo, Hanno Lustig, Amit Seru, and Jeffrey Zwiebel Beginning with SARS, Ebola, Zika, MERS, and now COVID-19, the world has witnessed the magnitude of the threat from the outbreak of an infectious and deadly disease. The subsequent scramble for a vaccine, and the long delays involved, makes it clear that we are unprepared. Why […] 
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Captured Western Governments are Failing the Coronavirus Test

Luigi Zingales In deciding on possible countermeasures, residents of Western democracies often hear only two opposite perspectives: Is the priority to minimize the loss of human lives, or to minimize the impact that the countermeasures might have on the economy? Even the simplest cost-benefit analysis suggests that the US government should be willing to spend […] 
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Coronavirus: Impact on Stock Prices and Growth Expectations

Niels Joachim Gormsen and Ralph S. J. Koijen The economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak, and the preventive measures adopted around the world, are still largely unknown. In addition, standard macroeconomic models based on fundamentals may be slow to adapt in this fast-changing environment. This column uses high-frequency data on dividend futures to evaluate the […] 
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A Proposal for a Covid Credit Line

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Arnoud Boot, Antonio Fatás, Marcel Fratzscher, Clemens Fuest, Francesco Giavazzi, Ramon Marimon, Philippe Martin, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Lucrezia Reichlin, Dirk Schoenmaker, Pedro Teles, Beatrice Weder di Mauro It is in the interest of every EU member state that countries in the Union hit by the coronavirus are able to take the necessary measures to […] 
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A Business Fiscal Response to a COVID-19 Recession

R. Glenn Hubbard and Michael R. Strain The federal government should offer significant assistance to small- and mid-sized service sector businesses so that they can retain their workers. Financial assistance to small business is financial support to workers, allowing workers to continue being paid by their employers during the coronavirus crisis. The goal should be […]