Although face masks reduce the chance of transmission of coronavirus, some governments have been reluctant to make their use mandatory in public places. People’s behaviour is likely to change when...

The Italian Society of Economists (SIE) invites to a webinar with Eleni Lioliou (Queen Mary University of London School of Business and Management) and Giovanni Cerulli (IRCrES-CNR - Research...

SITE at Stockholm School of Economics and the LSE Institute of Global Affairs organizes a webinar with leading scholars about early lessons from Sweden's approach to COVID-19 on April 22.

Please visit the webinar page for coming events and Zoom links.

The World Bank has published a new book on “Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies”, edited by Alistair Dieppe, with a database covering 164 countries over 1980-2018. The book analyses the...

A new working paper from Marta Giagheddu and Andrea Papetti illustrates the pros and cons of different combinations of economic shutdown and targeted social distancing with a special focus on the...

A new working paper by network member Flavio Toxvaerd, together with Robert Rowthorn considers a SIR model of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 or swine flu, in which costly treatment or...

How effective are restrictions on geographic mobility in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Russia’s war on Ukraine entails lost human capital, both in actual lives lost and due to major disruptions to key functions of the society, such as education and research. In light of this, the FREE...