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SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.

"There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"

"The US must take steps to limit job-destroying regulations and avert growth-sapping tax increases – before it’s too late," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor.

An open letter drafted by ��ɫֱ�� professors says the coronavirus stimulus package should benefit workers — not corporations and their wealthy shareholders.

As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, SIEPR experts are providing analysis, research & ideas meant to inform the decisions being made today [...]

“Right now, the country’s frozen,” said Anat Admati, a SIEPR Senior Fellow. "Policymakers have to decide what’s really best for society."

"We don’t know the true infection rate in the U.S. Antibody testing of representative samples to measure disease prevalence (including the recovered) is crucial."

"The government should provide what economists call liquidity [...]," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear.

“This is not a silver lining. The pandemic is incredibly destructive...But it shows that when we really disrupt the economy and shut things down, we emit a lot less pollution[...]"

"With Americans poised to experience their most abrupt liquidity shock in U.S. history [...] now is the time to deploy the full range of tools for addressing it."

"Even big companies may face limits as to what they can or are willing to provide," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

“People will change their habits, and some of these habits will stick,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Susan Athey [...]

In recessions, enrollment in higher ed goes up because opportunity costs go down [...]

John Taylor—Senior Fellow at SIEPR and the Hoover Institution—discusses policy response to the coronavirus economic crisis.

What consequences will the novel coronavirus have on our future—and is there a silver lining? SIEPR Senior Fellows Marshall Burke and Nicholas Bloom join Freakonomics to discuss.

“The country is being affected by a sudden shock that is preventing people from going to work and getting paid [...]"

"The reductions in air pollution in China [...] likely saved 20 times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country."

The Fed is taking extreme measures to calm the market but it may have to do even more—John Taylor, Senior Fellow at SIEPR and the Hoover Institution, shares his thoughts.

"Thousands of rules need to bend to help thousands of businesses and millions of people," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Cochrane.

"Even at a time when you may be physically more isolated than ever before, you can maintain economic connection to those who rely on you, and create new connections to people[...]"