COVID‐19 and the Economy

By J. Cloyne, Mônica da Costa Heluany Dias, M. Parey, James P. Ziliak. Fiscal studies, 2020

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The COVID-19 story keeps developing. At first, everyone listened to epidemiologists telling us that a great deal of social distancing, and even the closing down of economies, would be helpful. After trying these things, we ended up with a huge number of people out of work and protests everywhere. We discovered the models that were provided were not very predictive. We are also finding that a V-shaped recovery is not possible.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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