Modeling the Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis
Webinar
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2020
Time: 2:30-4:15pm (Eastern time)
James Stock moderated a panel discussion with Andrew Atkeson, Martin Eichenbaum, Francesco Lippi, Thomas Philippon and Eric Budish. Each of the panelists had written recent papers on how to approach the problems in modeling the economic effects of COVID-19 and spoke for 10 minutes giving their high level takeaways about the lessons from their analysis. We will reserved the remaining time for questions.
The papers that will be discussed can be accessed below.
- How Deadly is Covid-19? Understanding the Difficulties with Estimation of Its Fatality Rate
- What Will be the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the US? Rough Estimates of Disease Scenarios?
- Lockdowns and GDP: Is there a Tradeoff?
- The Macroeconomics of Epidemics
- A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
- Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic
- R<1 as an Economic Constraint: Can We "Expand the Frontier" in the Fight Against COVID-19?
The full video can be viewed here.
Individual panelists' presentations and slides are below.
- Andrew Atkeson—presentation | slides (pdf)
- Martin Eichenbaum—presentation | slides (pdf)
- Francesco Lippi—presentation | slides (pdf)
- Thomas Philippon—presentation | slides (pdf)
- Eric Budish—presentation | slides (pdf)
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