Event Information
Date: Tuesday, 23 and 30 June and 7, 14 and 21 July 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 (BST), 14:00 - 15:00 (CET), 8:00-9:00 (EST).
At the end of March CEPR launched a new online (lightly) peer-reviewed publication, Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. Very quickly after the onset of the epidemic a large number of policy papers were produced by economic scholars, many of which have appeared on VoxEU. This was enormously helpful in improving our understanding of policy options, but the next step requires more formal investigations, based on explicit theory and/or empirical evidence. Covid Economics aims to collate some of the best economic research on Covid-19 so that it might inform the academic and policy debate in an acute crisis when results have to circulate fast. It has been extremely well received by both the academic and policy-making communities.
Building on this success, CEPR and the Graduate Institute, Geneva are launching a weekly online seminar series which will present selected papers published in Covid Economics.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TVg00oXuQ7SiSrrx8OjlwQ
23 June
Paper presented: "Mitigating the work-security trade-off "
Presenter(s): Tito Boeri, Bocconi University and CEPR
Moderator: Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR
30 June
Paper presented: A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Presenter(s): Francesco Lippi, LUISS University, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR
Moderator: Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR
Dates: Tuesday 7, 14 and 21 July 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 (BST), 14:00 - 15:00 (CET), 8:00-9:00 (EST).
7 July
Paper presented: How did the 2003 SARS epidemic shape Chinese trade?
Presenters(s): Heiwai Tang, HKU, Johns Hopkins University and CESIfo
Moderator: Yi Huang, IHEID and CEPR
14 July
Paper presented: How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?
Presenter(s): Titan Alon, University of California San Diego
Moderator: TBA
21 July
Paper presented: Pandemic Lockdown: The Role of Government Commitment
Presenter(s): Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Beatrice Weder de Mauro, The Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR
Online Seminar series - Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers