Contents
Introduction
Richard Baldwin and Beatrice Weder di Mauro
1 Macroeconomics of the flu
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
2 Tackling the fallout from COVID-19
Laurence Boone
3 The economic impact of COVID-19
Warwick McKibbin and Roshen Fernando
4 Novel coronavirus hurts the Middle East and North Africa through many channels
Rabah Arezki and Ha Nguyen
5 Thinking ahead about the trade impact of COVID-19
Richard Baldwin and Eiichi Tomiura
6 Finance in the times of coronavirus
Thorsten Beck
7 Contagion: Bank runs and COVID-19
Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz
8 Real and financial lenses to assess the economic consequences of COVID-19
Catherine L. Mann
9 As coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?
Raffaella Meninno and Guntram Wolff
10 Trade and travel in the time of epidemics
Joachim Voth
11 On plague in a time of Ebola
Cormac O Grada
12 Coronavirus monetary policy
John H. Cochrane
13 The economic effects of a pandemic
Simon Wren-Lewis
14 The good thing about coronavirus
Charles Wyplosz