The COVID-19 Economic Crisis

Find all of our COVID-19 pandemic articles, webinars, and working papers here.

Article

Why a V-Shaped Recession Is a Pipe Dream

By Edward J. Kane

Jun 8, 2020

Regardless of what Trump says, the economic pain of the pandemic isn’t going anywhere

Article

Profits from Job Losses Will Finance Government Borrowing for COVID-19 Bailouts

By Lance Taylor

Jun 18, 2020

Article

The COVID-19 Bailout and its Financing Dilemmas

By Jan Toporowski and Robert Calvert Jump

Jun 30, 2020

Article

Takyiwaa Manuh: Governments need to focus more on the gendered impacts of COVID-19

By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin

Jun 26, 2020

Article

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy

By Edward J. Kane

Jun 30, 2020

Article

Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For

By Fred Ledley, Ekaterina Cleary, Zoë Folchman-Wagner, and Matthew Jackson

Jul 7, 2020

Article

CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much

By Lance Taylor

Apr 6, 2020

Event

COVID-19 and the Developing World

May 8, 2020

Article

America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice

By Lynn Parramore and Jeffrey L. Spear

May 14, 2020

Article

The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy

By Steven Fazzari

Mar 26, 2020

Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.

Article

Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy

By Lance Taylor

Mar 26, 2020

Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top

Article

The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment

By Pirmin Fessler and Martin Schürz

May 9, 2020

Article

The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal

By Jayati Ghosh

Apr 28, 2020

Paper

Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?

By Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

Mar 2020

Article

Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data

By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

Apr 2, 2020