Blogs&Reviews

Yes, medical gear depends on global supply chains. Here's how to keep them moving
Anabel González, 01 April 2020

Anabel González makes the case for a compact to encourage global production and distribution of medical supplies.
The coronavirus and financial stability
Arnoud Boot, Elena Carletti, Rainer Haselmann, Hans‐Helmut Kotz, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Loriana Pelizzon, Stephen Schaefer, Marti Subrahmanyam, 24 March 2020

The virus epidemic carries the risk of a financial pandemic which may even spiral into a global phenomenon, strenghtening the case for some form of a joint and mutual insurance scheme
Trump's trade policy is hampering the US fight against COVID-19
Chad Bown, 16 March 2020

Chad Bown argues that President Trump's administration should permanently and comprehensively suspend the trade war tariffs on critical medical products from China
Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus with large targeted policies
Gita Gopinath, 12 March 2020

Gita Gopinath argues that substantial targeted policies are needed to support the economy through the COVID-19 epidemic

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Time for the UK’s ‘budgetarians’ to make way for some proper fiscal policy

Jagjit Chadha, 09 March 2020

Jagjit Chadha argues that the sterile UK economic policy debate on whether an arbitrary fiscal rule will be met must be replaced by active fiscal policies that meet social and economic objectives
Designing an effective US policy response to coronavirus

David Wilcox, 05 March 2020

David Wilcox argues that a smart and rapid policy response to both the public health crisis and the likely economic slump in the US as a result of coronavirus is urgently needed
Google/Fitbit review: Privacy IS a competition issue

Cristina Caffarra, Tommaso Valletti, 04 March 2020

Cristina Caffarra and Tommaso Valletti argue that the role of data and the interface between competition and privacy issues is very broad and goes further than privacy as a parameter of competition
As the Coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?

Raffaella Meninno, Guntram Wolff, 28 February 2020

Raffaella Meninno and Guntram Wolff argue that closing the EU's borders to contain the spread of Coronavirus would cause serious economic disruption
Reversing the retreat of democracy: The case of Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason, 19 February 2020

Thorvaldur Gylfason discusses the decay of social capital in Iceland