Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Close up of a mobile phone with Coronavirus covid-19 news update. There is a unemployment benefits application in the background on the desk. The phone is being held and has an image of hand washing hygiene.

Incomes have crashed. How much has unemployment insurance helped?

Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Reopening the coronavirus-closed economy — Principles and tradeoffs

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

COVID-19 is already affecting the Washington, D.C. real estate market

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Volunteers at Los Angeles Food Bank hand out supplies at a drive-through food giveaway as the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Debunking myths about COVID-19 relief’s ‘unemployment insurance on steroids’

Annelies Goger, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Nicole Bateman

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

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Reopening the coronavirus-closed economy

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Man working in beef packaging facility

The president can’t force meat factories to open

Joshua Gotbaum and Jeffrey P. Bialos

Monday, May 11, 2020

A potential customer looks at a 2009 Chevrolet Impala sedan at a car dealership in Dearborn, Michigan December 29, 2008. General Motors and Chrysler are scheduled to each receive $4 billion of loan money today from the U.S. Treasury Department according to the terms of their agreement. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)

Costly car loans may stall the COVID-19 economic recovery

Monday, May 11, 2020

A vendor wearing a protective face mask serves a customer in his shop, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid concerns over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Boufarik, wilaya of Blida in Algeria, April 25, 2020. Algeria has taken further steps to ease restrictions over the novel coronavirus by allowing several businesses to reopen "to reduce the economic and social impact of the health crisis" caused by the pandemic, the prime minister's office said on Saturday. Photo by Louiza Ammi/ABACAPRESS.COM

Will COVID-19 reshape Algeria’s political system?

Yahia H. Zoubir and Anna L. Jacobs

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan chairs a meeting with ministers, bankers and business leaders to discuss dealing with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ankara, Turkey, March 18, 2020. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

The coronavirus has led to more authoritarianism for Turkey

Friday, May 8, 2020

A girl sits after receiving goods from volunteers during food and water distribution to the underprivileged and homeless, as Ghana enforces a partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi in efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Accra, Ghana. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Putting women and girls’ safety first in Africa’s response to COVID-19

Chuku Chuku, Adamon Mukasa, and Yasin Yenice

Friday, May 8, 2020