Commentaries

• COVID-19 in Belgium - what to do now? A commentary from the GEES experts

  • COMMENTARIES

  • Sep 27, 2020

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  • G. Magerman and F. Gallina

  A commentary from the GEES experts on the next steps

• Une évaluation de la contribution du premier tour des élections municipales à l’épidémie de COVID-19

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  • Jul 31, 2020

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  • G. Cassan and M. Sangnier

  Environ 20 millions d’électeurs se sont rendus aux urnes le dimanche 15 mars pour le premier tour des élections municipales alors que s’amorçait en France l’épidémie de COVID-19. L’étude évalue la contribution de cet événement à la diffusion du virus.

• Mitigating the economic consequences of COVID-19 - give priority to a demand-side policy

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  • May 19, 2020

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  • M. Castanheira

  The COVID-19 crisis hit hard both healthcare and economic systems. The objective of this short column is to try and identify how badly the pandemic may damage our long-term productive capacity. While it is clear that it will bring about an extremely deep recession, we argue that the effects will mainly be determined by the demand-side of the economy. This calls for aggressive demand stabilization policies.

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