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How economists can help us understand COVID-19's impact
On October 15, the Barcelona School of Economics held an online roundtable on "The Impact of COVID-19" to formally open the 2021-21 academic year.
The roundtable was moderated by BSE Research Professor Jan Eeckhout (ICREA-UPF and BSE), and the panelists shared perspectives based on their research in four areas:
- Luca Fornaro (CREI, UPF and BSE): The Macroeconomy
- Beatriz González (Bank of Spain): Employment and Firms
- Libertad González (UPF and BSE): Gender Inequality
- Francesc Obiols (UAB and BSE): Social Distancing
Nearly 100 BSE students, professors, researchers, alumni, and staff watched the lively discussion and submit questions to the panelists.
The event was a reminder that economists and other social scientists have much to contribute to our understanding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on individuals and society, and that policy interventions to mitigate that impact should be informed by research.
Research on "Covid Economics" by roundtable participants
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Christoph Albert, Andrea Caggese and Beatriz González The Short- and Long-Run Employment Impact of Covid-19 through the Effects of Real and Financial Shocks on New Firms
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Lídia Farré, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González and Jennifer Graves How the Covid-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
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Francesc Obiols-Homs Precaution, Social Distancing and Tests in a Model of Epidemic Disease
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Luca Fornaro and Martin Wolf Covid-19 Coronavirus and Macroeconomic Policy
More BSE research on Covid Economics
Since the first outbreaks of coronavirus and throughout the evolution of the pandemic, BSE Affiliated Professors have been working to understand the economic and social impact of COVID-19 from a variety of fields of expertise, such as:
- Health Economics (healthcare, public health)
- Labor Economics (employment, gender inequality, labor markets, mobility)
- Macroeconomics (financial crisis, fiscal policy, monetary policy)
- Microeconomics (decision making, firm behavior)
- Quantitative Methods (econometrics, mathematical modeling)
- Regional Economics (government policy, transportation)