News Roundup - April 3, 2020
Below is a sampling of news articles that caught our eye as they relate to the economic response to Coronavirus. They are non-exhaustive. Some links may be behind a paywall. We will update this on weekdays.
- The Effect of COVID-19 on Contact-Intensive Industries and Its Impact on the Rest of the Economy through Input-Output Linkages By Fernando Leibovici, Ana Maria Santacreu, and Matthew Famiglietti
- Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? By Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, and Ivan Werning (Twitter Summary)
- Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends By Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Aaron Sojourner
- COVID-19 and Financial Distress: Vulnerability to Infection and Death By Juan Sanchez, Ryan Mather, Kartik Athreya, and José Mustre-del-Rio
- Will UI Benefits Increase Lead to Higher Wages By Arindrajit Dube (Twitter Thread)
- The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent By Justin Wolfers
- Three Ways to Make Emergency Economic Responses Better By Matt Bruenig
- Explaining the new Fed-Treasury emergency fund By Peter Conti-Brown
- Covid-19, cash, and the future of payments By Raphael Auer, Giulio Cornelli and Jon Frost
- Understanding the Paycheck Protection Program in the CARES Act By Taylor LaJoie
- Banks were not prepared for flood of small business coronavirus loan applications By Daniel Roberts and Brian Cheung
Researchers across the globe are putting together incredible resources for understanding and tracking the coronavirus pandemic. It can be quite hard to keep up with it all. To help, Lukas Lehner has put together an incredible resource pulling it all together: "A Tracker of Trackers: COVID-19 Policy Responses and Data"