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Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the ���˴�Ƭ Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

“I fear that the prominence of the city, and particularly city centers, will decline,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom discusses unemployment in California.

Nick Bloom discusses the "Ikea-ization” of office costs—a reference to the way the Swedish superstores helped shift the responsibility for assembly from the seller to the customer.

SIEPR Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

Will working from home endure after the pandemic? SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom explores the future of the virtual workplace in this WBUR audio segment.

“There’s a massive reallocation shock,” said Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at ���˴�Ƭ. The recession “hits different sectors differently. Some benefit and some fall."

A two-year study done by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off.

A 2015 case study by Nicholas Bloom found that when one Chinese travel agency assigned a random group of employees to work remotely for 9 months, their productivity went up by 13%.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear and CNBC On-Air Editor Rick Santelli discuss retracing the footsteps of the last recession, good news on wages, and what to expect next month.

SIEPR Visiting Professor Rob Fairlie determined that startups by people of color report, on average, substantially higher levels of loan denials than their white counterparts.

"Maybe a year or two from now, when firms relax and say...you can come back in two or three days a week, and spend the other couple of days at home [...]" says Nick Bloom.

“We already have disparities. African Americans have the lowest business-ownership rate in the population...And so here we’re creating a situation of closures that’s hitting [...]"

SIEPR Sr Fellow Nicholas Bloom—co-author of an analysis of the pandemic’s effects on the labor market—estimates that 42% of recent layoffs will result in permanent job losses.

SIEPR Sr Fellow Nicholas Bloom, who has done extensive research on decentralized work, said he anticipates that the number of remote jobs will more than double after the pandemic.

“I hate to say it, but this is going to take longer and look grimmer than we thought,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom, remarking on the path to economic recovery.

“Everything is a bit more fragile nowadays,” said ���˴�Ƭ finance professor Anat Admati in this Mercury News article.

"We cannot ignore that most of the costs are being borne by our children and grandchildren, particularly the poorest among them," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear.

Taking time to talk with co-workers about things not related to work when taking calls over video or phone is "a good way to keep in touch" while working from home [...]

“There is enormous political pressure on sports teams to open back up . . . And that can cause a natural inclination to open too soon, because of the psychological impact." [...]