Publication Series
COVID-19: Featured Content
Book
Economics in the Time of COVID-19
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- COVID-19
Book
Europe in the Time of Covid-19
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- COVID-19 
- EU Economic Architecture
VoxEU Talk
Covid-19’s impact on innovation
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- COVID-19 
- Productivity and Innovation
All Content
VoxEU Talk
The political economy of lockdown
During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries with free media more likely to act – and were their citizens more likely to comply? Tim Besley and Sacha Dray talk to Tim Phillips about their new research.
VoxEU Column
Tracking US inequality in real time
New real-time inequality statistics for the US, synchronised with growth statistics, which show that all income groups recovered their pre-crisis pre-tax income level within 20 months of the beginning of the Covid-induced recession.
VoxEU Video
An economic case for global vaccinations
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan presents her recent studies that make an economic case for global vaccinations.
VoxEU Talk
Covid-19’s impact on innovation
The Covid crisis inspired extraordinary innovation. Carsten Fink and Reinhilde Veugelers are two of the editors of a new ebook from CEPR called Resilience and Ingenuity that examines how countries, organisations and industries were able to innovate. Tim Phillips asks them what worked, what didn’t, and whether we can keep up the pace of new ideas.