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SESSION ONE: Labor Markets and Consumer Spending

  1. The US Labor Market during the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession
  2. Tomaz Cajner, Leland D. Crane, Ryan A. Decker, John Grigsby, Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Erik Hurst, Christopher Kurz, Ahu Yildirmaz
  3. pp. 3-33
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0005
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  1. Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data
  2. Natalie Cox, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra, Arlene Wong, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, Erica Deadman
  3. pp. 35-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0006
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Jonathan A. Parker
  3. pp. 70-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0021
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SESSION TWO: Safety Net Programs and Poverty

  1. Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan
  3. pp. 85-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0007
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  1. The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19
  2. Marianne P. Bitler, Hilary W. Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
  3. pp. 119-158
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0008
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Abigail Wozniak
  3. pp. 146-158
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0018
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SESSION THREE: Emerging Market and Developing Economies

  1. The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: An Optimistic Preliminary Account
  2. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Tristan Reed
  3. pp. 161-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0009
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Michael Kremer
  3. pp. 212-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0015
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SESSION FOUR: Labor Markets and the Economics of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions

  1. Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis
  2. Alexander W. Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin, Jesse Rothstein, Matthew Unrath
  3. pp. 239-268
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0010
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  1. Mandated and Voluntary Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Epidemic
  2. Sumedha Gupta, Kosali Simon, Coady Wing
  3. pp. 269-326
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0011
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Victor Chernozhukov, Caroline Buckee
  3. pp. 316-326
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0016
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SESSION FIVE: Macroeconomics and Epidemiology

  1. COVID-19 Is Also a Reallocation Shock
  2. Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis
  3. pp. 329-383
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0012
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Katharine Abraham
  3. pp. 372-383
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0017
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  1. Policies for a Second Wave
  2. David Baqaee, Emmanuel Farhi, Michael Mina, James H. Stock
  3. pp. 385-443
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0013
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Daron Acemoglu
  3. pp. 432-443
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0020
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SESSION SIX: Federal Reserve Programs

  1. Corporate Debt Overhang and Credit Policy
  2. Markus Brunnermeier, Arvind Krishnamurthy
  3. pp. 447-502
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0014
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  1. Comments and Discussion
  2. Ben S. Bernanke
  3. pp. 489-502
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2020.0019
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