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Managing Expectations Is Critical to Ensure Compliance with Stay-at-Home Measures
A study of a representative sample of Italians finds that 50 percent of respondents reported having adopted all recommended actions, including staying at home,...
How Human and Institutional Behavior Change in the Context of Pandemics: a Webinar
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, discuss the economics of pandemics. From the bubonic plague to...
Why Amazon Is Poised to Emerge from the Covid-19 Crisis Stronger Than Ever
So far, Amazon has reacted to the coronavirus outbreak with restrictions designed to cement its market power at the expense of merchants and consumers.
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Walmart, Opioids, Oil Prices (and Coronavirus)
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
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The Covid-19 Bailout That Big Business Is Lobbying for Could Make America Unrecognizable
Supporting industries is necessary to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic. But using the coronavirus as an excuse, Boeing and other companies are...
How Covid-19 Infected Global Financial Markets: a Webinar
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Torsten Slok, Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank Securities, discuss what happened during Wall Street's worst week since the 2008...
“This Crisis Is Different: the Coronavirus Is a Social Disease Which We Need to Tackle as a Community”
In an extensive interview, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan discusses the pandemic's impact on financial...
What the European Union Can Do to Overcome Liquidity Shortages for Firms
European institutions can mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus crisis: the European Investment Bank (EIB) can borrow from the European Central Bank (ECB) and...
This Is Not the Time to Be Cautious. We Need to Contain the Economic Contagion of the Coronavirus
The real danger is that the virus mutates and infects our economic system, even as we manage to root it out of our bodies....
Keeping Business Alive During the Coronavirus Crisis: Government as Buyer of Last Resort
The government has to compensate businesses and workers for their losses so that each business can re-emerge almost intact after the hibernation due to...
