Master in International Markets
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Master in International Markets |
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Antonio
Quesada Office hours can be requested at aqa@urv.cat |
Classroom A2.2 · 30 March 2020 - 29 May 2020 Monday 17.00-19:00 and Wednesday 17.00-19.00
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This is it | Bad policy kills 
'COVID-19 Animation: What Happens If You Get Coronavirus?' Youtube 28 Mar 2020 COVID-19 global cases by the CSSE at Johns Hopkins University (or here) 2 Apr 2020 '[LIVE] Coronavirus pandemic: Real time counter' | Roylab Stats Youtube 3 May 2020 'The global macroeconomic impacts of COVID-19: Seven scenarios' | Warwick J. McKibbin / Roshen Fernando brookings.edu 2 Mar 2020 'What should a fiscal response to a COVID-19 outbreak look like' | Jay Shambaugh brookings.edu 3 Mar 2020 'Global macroeconomics of coronavirus' | Warwick J. McKibbin brookings.edu 9 Mar 2020 'Three macroeconomic issues and Covid-19' | Leonardo Cadamuro / Francesco Papadia bruegel.com 10 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus and macroeconomic policy' | Luca Fornaro / Martin Wolf VOX 10 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills — and that's the real global emergency' | Omar Hassan Independent 11 Mar 2020 'An effective economic response to the Coronavirus in Europe' | bruegel.com 12 Mar 2020 'Coronanomics 101: which policy tools will contain the economic threat of COVID-19?' | Barry Eichengreen World Economic Forum 12 Mar 2020 'COVID-19 likely to cost economy $1 trillion during 2020' | UN news 9 Mar 2020 'COVID-19 and the US economy: FAQ on the economic impact & policy response' | Jay Shambaugh Brookings 23 Mar 2020 'It could take three years for the US economy to recover from COVID-19' | Laura Oliver WEForum 30 Mar 2020 'Lockdown is the world's biggest psychological experiment - and we will pay the price' | Elke Van Hoof WEForum 9 Apr 2020 'The economic impact of COVID-19' | Daniel Bachman Deloitte 3 Mar 2020 'Our politics isn’t designed to protect the public from Covid-19' | George Monbiot The Guardian 18 Mar 2020 'ECB announces €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme' | European Central Bank 18 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently' | politico.com 19 Mar 2020 'What Economic Analyses of Past Pandemics Can Tell Us About the COVID-19 Aftermath' | reason.com 20 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus Recession Looms, Its Course ‘Unrecognizable’' | Nelson D. Schwartz New York Times 21 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus: What could the West learn from Asia?' | Helier Cheung BBC News 21 Mar 2020 'Largest monthly drop in Eurozone consumer confidence ever in March' | think.ing 23 Mar 2020 'The Coronavirus pandemic and the new world it is creating' | EU External Action 23 Mar 2020 '6 economic surveys show coronavirus is hammering the global economy' | Theron Mohamed 24 Mar 2020 
COVID-19: Brifing materials | Mckinsey.com 25 Mar 2020 'The economic effects of COVID-19 around the world' | Rosamond Hutt World Economic Forum 26 Mar 2020 'It could take three years for the US economy to recover from COVID-19' | Laura Oliver World Economic Forum 30 Mar 2020 '5 charts that show the global economic impact of coronavirus' | Reuters staff World Economic Forum 31 Mar 2020 'UN's Guterres: COVID-19 most challenging crisis since WW II' | eNCA 1 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus: US jobless claims hit 6.6 million as virus spreads' | BBC News 2 Apr 2020 US jobless claims 'Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact' | BBC News 2 Apr 2020 Stock market Pollution Chinese production Oil OECD growth forecast 'China Wants to Use the Coronavirus to Take Over the World' | Bruno Maçães 3 Apr 2020 'The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order' | Henry A. Kissinger 3 Apr 2020 'How COVID-19 Crunch Compares To Spanish Flu, Great Depressionr' | Peter Cohan Forbes 6 Apr 2020 'The EU Should Issue Perpetual Bonds' | George Soros project syndicate 20 Apr 2020 'Will Global Governance Prove Itself?' | C Manlan H-M Yéré project syndicate 24 Apr 2020 'Europe’s Welcome Pandemic Response' | Sylvain Broyer project syndicate 24 Apr 2020 Working paper: Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty | UN University An ‘Economic Rescue Plan For All’ to tackle the Coronavirus crisis | Oxfam International 9 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus: Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty' | Alasdair Sandford euronowews 9 Apr 2020 'Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus' | Oxfam 9 Apr 2020 'Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home'' | Sentinel-5P 16 Apr 2020 'Commission adopts banking package to facilitate lending to households and businesses' | 28 Apr 2020 'Ursula von der Leyen’s disaster management' | POLITICO 29 Apr 2020 'Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus' | Marjorie Cohn truthout.org (on Covid-19) 15 Apr 2020 'Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19' | truthout.org (on Covid-19) 15 Apr 2020 'Pop-up bike lanes help with coronavirus physical distancing in Germany' | Philip Oltermann The Guardian 13 Apr 2020 A brand new economy with recycled goods' | City of Amsterdam (Kate Raworth and doughnut economics) COVID-19 impact on European air traffic | EUROCONTROL 28 Apr 2020 ( Daily traffic variation 1 2 | 
18 Apr 2019 16 Apr 2020 ) 'China starts major trial of state-run digital currency' | Helen Davidson The Guardian 28 Apr 2020 The state of food security and nutrition in the world | 2019 Report FAO ( UN global issues: food ) UN COVID-19 response 3 May 2020 'Yanis Varoufakis on the economic and political impact of the coronavirus' 15 Mar 2020 Youtube 'Yanis Varoufakis: Europe's latest historic failure' 23 Mar 2020 Youtube 'Covid-19: The economy, explained' 9 Apr 2020 Youtube IMF: The great lockdown Covid safety ranking Eurozone Top-40 dkv 12 Apr 2020 'Managing Liquidity in a Crisis' | gfmag.com 14 Apr 2020 'Central Banks’ Bold Cuts Leave No Room For Encore' | gfmag.com 9 Apr 2020 'The Reality Of The End Of Oil' | Robert Rapoer oilprice.com 11 Apr 2020 'We're Barreling Toward An Epic Glut Of Oil' | Camila Domonoske npr 20 Mar 2020 'Free Fall: Oil Prices Go Negative' | Camila Domonoske npr 20 Apr 2020 'Oil plunges 321% into negative territory for the first time ever' | Saloni Sardana 20 Apr 2020 'WTI crude price goes negative for the first time in history' | worldoil.com 20 Apr 2020 'Oil prices fall to historic lows' | Dallasnews.com 20 Apr 2020 Oil price charts | oilprice.com 'COVID-19 Could Kill China’s $3.8 Trillion New Silk Road' | Oxford Business Group oilprice.com 20 Apr 2020 'Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I'm the evil guy crippling the economy'' | Laura Spinney The Guardian 26 Apr 2020 'POLITICO's Virtual Brussels Playbook Interview with Thomas Piketty' | Youtube POLITICO Europe 28 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?' | Patrick Wintour The Guardian 11 Apr 2020 'Coronabonds with or without Germany' | World Inequality Database 20 Apr 2020 Coronavirus research SSRN ERSA COVID-19 forum NPR · The Coronavirus Crisis Eurostat statistics on Covid-19 | ec.europa.eu Eurostat Eurozone indicators: 'GDP down by 3.8% in the euro area' | Unemployment Inflation GDP Income | Eurostat 29 Apr 2020 European Commission Coronavirus Response ECB response to the coronavirus pandemic Project Syndicate · Coverage of the pandemic 'The Populists’ Pandemic' | Andrés Velasco Project Syndicate 1 May 2020 'How to Avoid a W-Shaped Recession' | Jeffrey Frankel Project Syndicate 1 May 2020 'The Fed says it will do what it can to bolster the economy' | NYTimes 30 Apr 2020 Word Health Organization COVID-19 dashboard | WHO TED talks: 'Coronavirus is our future' & 'Why COVID-19 is hitting us now' | Alanna Shaikh Mar 2020 TED talk: 'What coronavirus means for the global economy' | Ray Dalio 9 Apr 2020 COVID-19 and the New Leadership Agenda | Boston Consulting Group (thanks to Ivan Abraldes for this report by BCG) 'Alternative scenarios for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activity in the euro area' | Niccolò Battistini & Grigor Stoevsky ECB 1 May 2020 'Economic outlook, crisis impact and road to recovery' | Luis de Guindos ECB 7 May 2020 'Will COVID-19 Remake the World?' | Dani Rodrik Project Syndicate 6 Apr 2020 'An Abysmal Failure of Leadership' | Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Project Syndicate 7 May 2020 'Humanity needs leadership and solidarity to defeat the coronavirus' | United Nations Development Programme 'Spring 2020 Economic Forecast' Report | European Commission 6 May 2020 'Coronavirus Global Response: €7.4 billion raised' | European Commission 4 May 2020 Economic performance and forecasts Economic and fiscal policy coordination Jobs and economy during the coronavirus pandemic | European Commission Economic response 'Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation' | Council of Economic Advisers to the President of the USA Sep 2019 EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice | EJAtlas 7 May 2020 'Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown' | James Kirkup unherd.com 23 Apr 2020 'Which epidemiologist do you believe? The debate about lockdown' | Freddie Sayers unherd.com 27 Apr 2020 'How China is exploiting pandemic panic' | Ian Birrell unherd.com 30 Apr 2020 Xi+Trump 'Covid-19 is hardening our borders' | Tim Marshall unherd.com 4 May 2020 'Covid is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' | Peter Franklin unherd.com 5 May 2020 'Is the lockdown doing more harm than good?' | Tom Chivers unherd.com 5 May 2020 'In a Plague Year' | Mike Davis jacobinmag.com 14 Mar 2020 'New Pathogen, Old Politics' | Alex de Waal jacobinmag.com 3 Apr 2020 'German court ruling ties ECB's hands - now and in the future' | Balazs Koranyi & Francesco Canepa Reuters 5 May 2020 'German court criticises European Central Bank crisis bond-buying' | BBC news 5 May 2020 'Christine Lagarde says ECB is ‘undeterred’ by German court challenge' | Martin Arnold Financial Times 7 May 2020 'Je ne crois pas aux déclarations du genre « rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant » - Michel Houellebecq' | Augustin Trapenard 4 May 2020 (in French) 'Borrell: "El coronavirus ha desequilibrado el mundo, hay un desorden multipolar dominado por la rivalidad EEUU-China"' | Andrés Gil eldiario.es 7 May 2020 (in Spanish) 'Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers' (17th issue 13 May 2020) | cepr.org 'The ABCs of the post-COVID economic recovery' | Louise Sheiner & Kadija Yilla Brookings 4 May 2020 'More Europe or less?' | The Economist 21 Mar 2020 'Coronavirus: Recession, response, recovery' | Chetan Ahya Morgan Stanley 25 Mar 2020 'Morgan Stanley warns of a possible collapse of the GDP in Spain of 22.6%' | web24.news 28 Apr 2020 'The debt dilemma' | Michael Roberts blog 10 May 2020 'What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders' | Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Forbes 13 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact' ( pdf version) | Lora Jones, Daniele Palumbo & David Brown BBC News 30 Apr 2020 'COVID-19: World economy in 2020 to suffer worst year since 1930s Great Depression, says IMF' | Euronews 14 Apr 2020 'Who will be the winners in a post-pandemic economy?' | Mohit Joshi World Economic Forum 20 Apr 2020 'New tech infrastructure will help economies recover after COVID-19' | Lei Xu World Economic Forum 12 May 2020 'This is the effect COVID-19 will have on global poverty, according to the World Bank' | Daniel Mahler & Christoph Lakner World Economic Forum 11 May 2020 'The Global Risks Report 2020' (Report) | World Economic Forum 15 Jan 2020 (do not look for the coronavirus pandemic here) 'How to Create a Pandemic Depression. Opening the economy too soon could backfire, badly' | Paul Krugman NYTimes 11 May 2020 'Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic' | Wikipedia 13 May 2020 'Today’s Numbers: The COVID Economy' | Scott Tong & Mitchell Hartman Marketplace.org 13 May 2020 'The longer-run economic consequences of pandemics' | Òscar Jordà, Sanjay R. Singh, Alan M. Taylor VOX CEPR Policy Portal 8 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus meets the Great Influenza Pandemic' | Robert Barro, Jose Ursua, Joanna Weng VOX CEPR Policy Portal 20 Mar 2020 'COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work' | Richard Baldwin, Simon Evenett VOX CEPR Policy Portal 29 Apr 2020 'COVID-induced economic uncertainty and its consequences' | Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Terry VOX CEPR Policy Portal 13 Apr 2020 'How COVID-19 is transforming the world economy' | Kemal Kilic, Dalia Marin VOX CEPR Policy Portal 10 May 2020 'The economic impact of Covid-19 in Europe and the US' | Sophia Chen, Deniz Igan, Nicola Pierri, Andrea Presbitero VOX CEPR Policy Portal 11 May 2020 'COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan' |
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Ramon Marimon, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Lucrezia
Reichlin, Dirk Schoenmaker, Beatrice Weder di Mauro VOX CEPR Policy Portal 11 Mar 2020 'Economics in the time of COVID-19: A new eBook' | Richard Baldwin, Beatrice Weder di Mauro VOX CEPR Policy Portal 6 Mar 2020 'Oil price wars in a time of COVID-19' | Rabah Arezki, Rachel Yuting Fan VOX CEPR Policy Portal 10 Mar 2020 'Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes' | Richard Baldwin, Beatrice Weder di Mauro VOX CEPR Policy Portal 18 Mar 2020 'What the stock market tells us about the consequences of COVID-19' | Stefano Ramelli, Alexander Wagner VOX CEPR Policy Portal 12 Mar 2020 'A risk-centric perspective on the central banks’ Covid-19 policy response' | Ricardo Caballero, Alp Simsek VOX CEPR Policy Portal 30 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus: What shape will the recession be' V U W L | Peter Hoskins BBC News 10 May 2020 'Coronavirus: Pandemic sends US jobless rate to 14.7%' US unemployment | BBC News 8 May 2020 'Bank of England warns of sharpest recession on record' UK downturn | Szu Ping Chan BBC News 7 May 2020 'Covid-19 has become an 'economic crisis' says chief economist' | Douglas Fraser BBC News 21 Apr 2020 'COVID-19: Implications for business' (Full report or here) | McKinsey 13 May 2020 'The Social and Economic Impact of Covid-19 in the Asia-Pacific Region' (Document) | United Nations Development Programme 28 Apr 2020 The OECD on COVID-19 | OECD 2 Apr 2020 Covid-19 statistical resources (BIS, Bank for International Settlements) | BIS 2 Apr 2020 Covid-19 transmissions | Nextstrain (Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution) Beginning End (12 May 2020) 'Coronavirus: Are the lockdowns actually working?' | Abacaba Youtube 23 Apr 2020 'Coronavirus update: Recoveries vs. deaths in each country' | Abacaba Youtube 28 Feb 2020 'Angela Merkel, rotunda: "L'Estat-nació no té futur"' | Lluís Bou elnacional.cat 20 May 2020 (in Catalan) ( Merkel's statement (in German) (source) English translation ) 
'The Global Economic Impact of COVID-19' | Nomura Apr 2020 'Open letter to the EU and European leaders: ‘We need Renaissance bonds to face the health and economic crisis’' | voxeurop 6 Apr 2020 'Flattening the COVID-19 Curve in Developing Countries' | Ricardo Hausmann Project Syndicate 24 Mar 2020 'Think The COVID Catastrophe Is Expensive? The Climate One Could Cost $1 Quadrillion' | Steve Zwick 17 Apr 2020COVID is round 1 - climate change comes next Cartoon (source) KAL 'The coronavirus spreads to the markets and monetary policy takes urgent action' ( Monthly report) | caixabankresearch 16 Apr 2020 'COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan' | Agnès Bénassy-Quéré et al. VOX CPR Policy Portal 11 Mar 2020 'The ABCs of the post-COVID economic recovery' | Louise Sheiner & Kadija Yilla Brookings 4 May 2020 'Z, V or 'Nike swoosh' – what shape will the COVID-19 recession take?' | Peter Beech weforum.org 19 May 2020 'Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 World' ( Report) | weforum.org 19 May 2020 'Viral recessions: Lack of demand during the coronavirus crisis' | Veronica Guerrieri et al. VOX CPR Policy Portal 6 May 2020 'Europe's COVID Crossroads' | Bertrand Badré , Mathilde Lemoine Project Syndicate 18 May 2020 'Predicting the supply and demand shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic' | R. Maria del Rio-Chanona et al. Project Syndicate 16 May 2020 'The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression' | Kristalina Georgieva IMF 23 Mar 2020 'Covid-19 highlights problems of dollar dominance' | Nicky Morris Mar 2020 'Covid-19 and corporate sector liquidity' | BIS 28 Apr 2020 A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries (The Wellbeing–Consumption Paradox) | World database on happiness Fighting the COVID-19 | Sack cartoon: The outbreak and the economy 'Merkel and Macron propose €500bn EU rescue fund' | Daniel Boffey The Guardian 18 May 2020
