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April 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, on his latest book, The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private…
| Anders Jensen
February 16, 2021, Paper: "Public finances have been impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic. The disbursal of large economic and health support packages, coupled with a sharp contraction in economic activity, has led to growing fiscal deficits.1 The magnitude of these deficits remains unknown because of the uncertainty regarding when the public health crisis will subside – and by extension, how frequent and severe domestic containment…
| Kenneth Rogoff
February 11, 2021, Paper: "The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a strong uptick in paper currency demand across advanced economies, even as contactless methods surged ahead of cash in payments. This article explores these two contrasting phenomena, which are in fact continuations of much longer-term trends. The use of cash, while still important for small in-person transactions, has been declining as a share of overall consumer…
| Youngme Moon | Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Mihir A. Desai | Rawi Abdelal
December 22, 2020, Audio: "Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai invite their new co-hosts, Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and Rawi Abdelal, onto the show to share their predictions for 2021, covering everything from business to politics to fashion. You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: …
| Carmen Reinhart | Lawrence H. Summers | Nicholas Burns
December 15, 2020, Video: "Join World Bank Chief Economist Dr. Carmen Reinhart in conversation with Lawrence H. Summers and Nicholas Burns on economic diplomacy in the time of COVID-19. The World Bank expects over 90% of countries to be in recession in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Advanced economies will shrink by 7%, and developing economies by 2.5%. An additional 100 million people around the globe will fall into extreme poverty because…
| Karen Dynan | Eric Maskin
December 13, 2020, Video: "Pandemics always affect economic life; COVID-19 has had a powerful impact on national and global economies, generating recession and possible depression. This session will assess the tensions that have arisen between reestablishing economies and mitigating the epidemic. It will also assess economic policies for sustaining and rebuilding essential economic stability and growth."…
November 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, on the long-term geopolitical impact of COVID-19, morality and the U.S. Presidency, and the role of soft power in U.S. foreign policy. |…
| Lawrence H. Summers
November 13, 2020, Video: "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor and adviser to Pres.-elect Biden's campaign, says that fiscal stimulus will play a role in understanding where markets go from here. Steve Rattner, Willett Adviors Chairman & CEO says that the rotation out of tech stocks this week could signal that markets are becoming efficient again. Willett Advisors manages the personal and…
| David Cutler
November 11, 2020, Video: "The Economic Cost of COVID-19 David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER November 11, 2020."
| James H. Stock
October 2020, Paper: "We assess the economic value of screening testing programs as a policy response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We find that the fiscal, macroeconomic, and health benefits of rapid SARS-CoV-2 screening testing programs far exceed their costs, with the ratio of economic benefits to costs typically in the range of 4-15 (depending on program details), not counting the monetized value of lives saved. Unless the screening test…