Fears of rising inflation are much ado about nothing
Loose central bank money and Covid-induced shocks herald the return of the inflation spectre. Here is why you don't have to worry about it.
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Tim Vlandas
- Dec 4, 2020
- 6 min
A pandemic ‘misery index’: Ranking countries’ economic and health performance during Covid-19
How can we compare the impact of Covid-19 on different countries across the world? Tim Vlandas proposes a pandemic ‘misery index'.
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Bob Hancké
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
Redistribution within one class
Read what's wrong with Deutsche Bank’s economics department's suggestion to tax WFH so that essential workers could be paid a proper wage.
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Laurenz Mathei
- Nov 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Labour Market after Covid-19: At a glance
Covid-19 has a profound impact on the labour market. This post sets the scene and offers an overview of the other articles in this dossier.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 23, 2020
- 9 min
Goodhart’s law and the dark side of herd immunity
Read why Goodhart's law tells us that herd immunity undermines its set goal, is technically flawed, and epistemologically wrong.
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Nicholas Barr
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
Britain’s job support schemes: right direction, more to do
Some jobs will still be viable in a few months’ time. Others won’t. Nicholas Barr (LSE) argues that job support schemes need to go further.
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Bob Hancké, Toon van Overbeke, and Dustin Voss
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Anatomy of a wage subsidy
The UK's new wage subsidy scheme is unlikely to work as well as its German counterpart, as many important systemic elements are missing.
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Daniel Beunza and Derin Kent
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
Returning to the office: how to stay connected and socially distant
Working from home or returning to the office? We need to think carefully about future working arrangements to not get stuck in the middle.
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