COVID-19
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Due to coronavirus, many children have lost much of the educational structure that a classroom would normally provide. SIEPR Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek shares his thoughts [...]
March 27, 2020
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鈥淭his is really going to be a recession unlike anything we have ever seen before,鈥 said Mark Duggan, who is both the director of SIEPR and a SIEPR Senior Fellow.
March 26, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.
March 26, 2020
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"There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"
March 26, 2020
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"The US must take steps to limit job-destroying regulations and avert growth-sapping tax increases 鈥 before it鈥檚 too late," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor.
March 26, 2020
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An open letter drafted by 成人大片 professors says the coronavirus stimulus package should benefit workers 鈥 not corporations and their wealthy shareholders.
March 26, 2020
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鈥淩ight now, the country鈥檚 frozen,鈥 said Anat Admati, a SIEPR Senior Fellow. "Policymakers have to decide what鈥檚 really best for society."
March 24, 2020
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"We don鈥檛 know the true infection rate in the U.S. Antibody testing of representative samples to measure disease prevalence (including the recovered) is crucial."
March 24, 2020
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"The government should provide what economists call liquidity [...]," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear.
March 24, 2020
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鈥淭his is not a silver lining. The pandemic is incredibly destructive...But it shows that when we really disrupt the economy and shut things down, we emit a lot less pollution[...]"
March 23, 2020
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"With Americans poised to experience their most abrupt liquidity shock in U.S. history [...] now is the time to deploy the full range of tools for addressing it."
March 22, 2020
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"Even big companies may face limits as to what they can or are willing to provide," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
March 22, 2020
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鈥淧eople will change their habits, and some of these habits will stick,鈥 said SIEPR Senior Fellow Susan Athey [...]
March 21, 2020
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In recessions, enrollment in higher ed goes up because opportunity costs go down [...]
March 19, 2020
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John Taylor鈥擲enior Fellow at SIEPR and the Hoover Institution鈥攄iscusses policy response to the coronavirus economic crisis.
March 19, 2020
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What consequences will the novel coronavirus have on our future鈥攁nd is there a silver lining? SIEPR Senior Fellows Marshall Burke and Nicholas Bloom join Freakonomics to discuss.
March 19, 2020
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鈥淭he country is being affected by a sudden shock that is preventing people from going to work and getting paid [...]"
March 18, 2020
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Darrell Duffie on the financial markets in a coronavirus world
The SIEPR senior fellow discusses the volatility of the financial markets and potential stabilizing measures as a recession threatens the economy.
March 18, 2020
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"The reductions in air pollution in China [...] likely saved 20 times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country."
March 17, 2020
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The Fed is taking extreme measures to calm the market but it may have to do even more鈥擩ohn Taylor, Senior Fellow at SIEPR and the Hoover Institution, shares his thoughts.
March 17, 2020