Born Out of Necessity: A Debt Standstill for COVID-19 by Patrick Bolton, Lee Buchheit , Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Mitu Gulati , Chang-Tai Hsieh, Ugo Panizza, Beatrice Weder di Mauro published by CEPR Policy Insight (4/2020). “Rich and poor countries alike…
COVID-19 in Developing Economies edited by Simeon Djankov and Ugo Panizza published by VOXEU (6/2020). “At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hoped that warm weather and younger populations would shield many developing countries from the virus. This…
VoxEU readership in the COVID-19 crisis by Richard Baldwin (5/2020) “Thanks to the contributions of literally hundreds of policy-relevant economists from around the world, VoxEU.org has become a key global hub of research-based analysis of COVID-19 economic issues since early…
Public debt and private investment by Yi Huang, Ugo Panizza and Richard Varghese published by VOXEU (12/2019). “Establishing the presence of a causal link from public debt to economic growth and investment has proved challenging. This column uses data…
The motives to borrow by Antonio Fatás, Atish R. Ghosh, Ugo Panizza and Andrea F. Presbitero published by IMF, indicated by Alvaro Manoel (5/2019). “Governments issue debt for good and bad reasons. While the good reasons – intertemporal tax-smoothing,…
