This research collection gathers work on the impact of COVID-19 by Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors . Since the first outbreaks of coronavirus and throughout the evolution of the pandemic, researchers across the Barcelona GSE community have been working to understand its economic and social impact from a variety of fields of expertise, such as:
Health Economics (healthcare, public health)
Labor Economics (employment, gender inequality, labor markets, mobility)
Macroeconomics (financial crisis, fiscal policy, monetary policy)
Microeconomics (decision making, firm behavior)
Quantitative Methods (econometrics, mathematical modeling)
Regional Economics (government policy, transportation)
Their findings can contribute to the design of policies aimed at mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on individuals and society.
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Barcelona GSE Working Papers | International portals and research groups | Covid research in Spanish and Catalan
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Anna Houstecka, Dongya Koh and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1225 | December 2020
José-Luis Peydró , Andrea Polo and Enrico SetteBarcelona GSE Working Paper 1219 | November 2020
Luca Fornaro and Martin WolfBarcelona GSE Working Paper 1214 | November 2020
Flip Klijn , Mehdi Mdaghri Alaoui and Marc VorsatzBarcelona GSE Working Paper 1210 | October 2020
Christian Alemán, Christopher Busch , Alexander Ludwig and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1209 | October 2020
Oriol Aspachs, Ruben Durante , Alberto Graziano, Josep Mestres, José García-Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1202 | September 2020
José García-Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1201 | September 2020
Christoph Albert, Andrea Caggese and Beatriz González
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1200 | September 2020
Lídia Farré, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González and Jennifer Graves
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1188 | July 2020
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani and Edouard Schaal
Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1187 | June 2020
Ruben Durante , Luigi Guiso and Giorgio GulinoBarcelona GSE Working Paper 1181 | May 2020
Francesc Obiols-Homs Barcelona GSE Working Paper 1173 | April 2020
Luca Fornaro and Martin WolfBarcelona GSE Working Paper 1168 | March 2020
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The most recent contributions appear first.
04.06 | Divided we stay home: Evidence from Russia and the United States of stricter voluntary social distancing where there is greater ethnic diversity (CEPR Discussion Paper)Ruben Enikolopov (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE), Alexey Makarin (EIEF), Maria Petrova (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
26.05 | Europe in the Time of Covid-19 (CEPR eBook)Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE), Ramon Marimon (UPF and Barcelona GSE), and Massimo Motta (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
30.04 | The EU recovery fund: An opportunity for change (VoxEU)Massimo Motta (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
18.04 | EU state aid policies in the time of COVID-19 (VoxEU)Massimo Motta (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
16.04 | Civic capital and social distancing: Evidence from Italians’ response to COVID-19 (VoxEU)Ruben Durante (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
06.04 | The ESM can finance the COVID-19 fight right now (VoxEU)Ramon Marimon (UPF and Barcelona GSE) with Aitor Erce and Antonio Garcia Pascual
06.04 | European economic policy for the COVID-19 crisis: Views of leading economists on lockdowns, Coronabonds and the ECB’s role (VoxEU)Jan Eeckhout (UPF and Barcelona GSE), Xavier Freixas (UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
05.04 | COVID-19 economic crisis: Europe needs more than one instrument (VoxEU)Ramon Marimon (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
25.03 | Some thoughts on COVID-19 from a labour mobility perspective: From ‘red-zoning’ to ‘green-zoning’ (VoxEU)Joan Monràs (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
21.03 | A proposal for a Covid Credit Line (VoxEU)Ramon Marimon (EUI and Barcelona GSE) et al.
17.03 | Helicopter money: the time is now (VoxEU)Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
11.03 | COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan (VoxEU)Ramon Marimon (EUI and Barcelona GSE) et al.
10.03 | Coronavirus and macroeconomics (VoxEU)Luca Fornaro (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Martin Wolf (University of Vienna)
The most recent materials appear first.
15.06 | Buen gobierno, pandemias… y calentamiento global (AES blog, in Spanish)Humberto Llavador (UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
01.06 | La economía española en tiempos de pandemia: una primera aproximación Angel de la Fuente (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE), Toni Roldán and Juan Francisco Jimeno, eds.
16.05 | La volatilidad del conocimiento científico en tiempos de la COVID-19 (AES blog, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
09.05 | Una nueva normalidad, una nueva salud pública (AES blog, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
21.04 | Primer boletín mensual de seguimiento de los aspectos económicos de la crisis del Covid-19 (Fedea, in Spanish)Angel de la Fuente (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE)
20.04 | Trazado de contactos digital: herramienta contra el COVID-19 (CIUP Policy Paper, in Spanish)Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
26.04 | La salida: Rumbo a Ítaca (AES blog, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
19.04 | La salida: Mejorar la capacidad de respuesta sanitaria (y social) (AES Blog, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
17.04 | Economía digital en tiempos de pandemia (V). Realidad invertida (Funcas blog, in Spanish)Juan-José Ganuza (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
17.04 | La salida de la crisis por el ‘pasillo estrecho’. En el bote salvavidas (Nada Es Gratis, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
07.04 | La salida: Retomar el trabajo (Fugong Fuchan) (AES Blog, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE) et al.
06.04 | Emerging Evidence of a Silver Lining: A Ridge Walk to Avoid an Economic Catastrophe in Italy and Spain (also in Spanish on Nada Es Gratis)Christopher Busch (MOVE-UAB and Barcelona GSE), Alexander Ludwig (Goethe University Frankfurt), Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis (UAB and Barcelona GSE)
01.04 | Los efectos sobre el empleo de la crisis del COVID-19 (Fedea, in Spanish)Sergi Jiménez-Martín (UPF and Barcelona GSE) with Florentino Felgueroso (Fedea) and José Ignacio García Pérez (UNIA)Radio interview with Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE) discussing issues related to this report (RAC1, in Catalan)
31.03 | ¿Por qué es el coronavirus más letal entre los hombres? (Nada Es Gratis, in Spanish)Libertad González (UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Ana Rodríguez (GPEFM - UPF and Barcelona GSE)
18.03 | Los planes de contingencia, para la presente epidemia, no han de limitarse a los centros sanitarios (Nada Es Gratis, in Spanish)Vicente Ortún (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
17.03 | El papel de la banca (pública y privada) en la crisis del Covid-19 (Nada Es Gratis, in Spanish)José-Luis Peydró (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
12.03 | Reflexions entorn del COVID19 (Research Centre on Health and Economics - CRES Policy Papers)Guillem López-Casasnovas (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
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