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Covid-19

Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Covid-19 Models, Grocery Stores, and Bank Robberies

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Maybe we...
Covid-19

How Many Jobs Can Be Done at Home? In the United States, It’s 37 percent

Jonathan Dingel
Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of Covid-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: How...
Covid-19

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Winners and Losers in the Stimulus Bill – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
In order to combat the coronavirus, Congress has passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill that targets individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. From an...
Commentary

Why We Can Be Optimistic About the Long-Term Impact of the “Covid Economy”

Wojciech Kopczuk
In the short run, we have to save lives and hibernate the economy. In the longer term we will have slower, but important changes....
Antitrust and Competition

The Danger of No Antitrust Enforcement: How a Merger Led to the US Ventilator Shortage

Matt Stoller
In order to enhance its market power, a large medical device manufacturer and distributor named Covidien bought up the small and competitive Newport Medical...
Covid-19

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Asher Schechter
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
Covid-19

Managing Expectations Is Critical to Ensure Compliance with Stay-at-Home Measures

Mario Macis
A study of a representative sample of Italians finds that 50 percent of respondents reported having adopted all recommended actions, including staying at home,...
Covid-19

Is Monetary Policy Independence Out of Date? A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 3)

ProMarket writers
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
Covid-19

Constitutional Limits to Independent Agencies and Central Banks: A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 2)

ProMarket writers
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
Covid-19

How Human and Institutional Behavior Change in the Context of Pandemics: a Webinar

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, discuss the economics of pandemics. From the bubonic plague to...
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