Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Working Paper MWP20027

Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty

Steven J. DAVIS, Scott R. BAKER, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Aniket BAKSY, Jonathan RODDEN
We examine patterns of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) around national elections in 23 countries. Uncertainty shows a clear tendency to rise in the months leading up to elections. Average EPU values are 13% higher in the month of and the month prior to an election than in other months of the same ...
Keywords: uncertainty, Policy uncertainty, elections, polarization
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Working Paper MWP20026

60 million fewer commuting hours per day: How Americans use time saved by working from home

Steven J. DAVIS, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Jose Maria BARRERO
Drawing on original surveys of our own design, we estimate that the pandemic-induced shift to working from home lowers commuting time among Americans by more than 60 million hours per work day. Cumulative time savings over the past seven months exceed 9 billion hours. Our survey data also say that A...
Keywords: Covid-10, Pandemic, Work from home
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Working Paper MWP20025

Between Lives and Economy: Optimal COVID-19 Containment Policy in Open Economies

Wen-Tai HSU, Hsuan-Chih (Luke) LIN, Han YANG
This paper studies optimal containment policy for combating a pandemic in an open- economy context. It does so via quantitative analyses using a model that incorporates a standard epidemiological compartmental model in a multi-country, multi-sector Ricardian model of international trade with full-fl...
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, welfare analysis, containment policy, optimal policy, open economy, trade, input-output linkages
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Specialty Conference

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Specialty Conference

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Sep 2020

Working Paper SC20FT009

China's debt relief actions overseas: Patterns, interactions with other creditors and macroeconomic implications

Gatien BON, Gong CHENG
This paper explores a novel database of 140 Chinese debt restructurings overseas between 2000 and 2019. It uncovers a number of salient features of the restructuring terms that China has offered in the past and the ways in which China has interacted with other types of creditor and the International...
Keywords: China, sovereign debt restructuring, Paris Club
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

Working Paper MWP20024

Still the World's Safe Haven? Redesigning the U.S. Treasury Market After the COVID19 Crisis

Darrell DUFFIE
I review the functionality of the secondary market for U.S. Treasuries in March 2020, when the Covid-19 crisis triggered investor flows that overwhelmed intermediaries. Although the Fed was able to largely restore market liquidity through its unprecedented rate of Treasury purchases and other action...
Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, market liquidity, Treasury market
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