Our excellent networks, state of the art modelling, cross disciplinary research and economic measurement makes NIESR ideally placed to lead debate on the social and economic impact of the Coronavirus. We have started to publish a range of perspective from our staff and partners, and will continue to do so over the coming weeks. You can browse our research below, or by using the signposts to the left.
 

"How to help new starters: an open letter", 26th May, NIESR blog by Claudine Bowyer-Crane and Adrian Pabst

"The Economics of the UK University System in the Time of Covid-19", 22nd May, NIESR Policy Paper 019 by Peter Dolton

"Economic forecasting in a time of Covid-19", 21st May, NIESR blog by Barry Naisbitt

"Underlying Inflation Reflects Inflationary Pressure", 20th May, CPI Tracker, Janine Boshoff

"First Signs of Severe Labour Market Impact of Covid-19", 19th May, Wage Tracker, Garry Young and Patricia Sanchez Juanino

"Why Covid-19 should change the conversation on migrant workers",18th May, New Statesman, by Andrew Aitken and Chiara Manzoni

Playlist of COVID-19 videos on YouTube (Featuring videos from Garry Young, Deputy Director at NIESR; our Economists' Briefing from 29th April on the "UK and World Economy Contraction and Recovery"; and our joint webinar with the University of Glasgow from the 12th May on "What Next for the UK and World Economy?")

"NIESR/University of Glasgow Webinar - Covid Crisis: What Next for The UK and World Economy?" 12th May, webinar, Jagjit Chadha

"How bad is the economic damage looking—and what are the prospects for recovery?", 13th May, Prospect, by Jagjit Chadha

"Moving Back Towards Market-Based Government Finance", 12th May, NIESR Policy Paper 018 by William Allen

"Will CPIH inflation understate inflation for April 2020?", 8th May, blog post by Huw Dixon

"Summary of NIESR forecasts ahead of key Bank of England report" - 4th May, a summary of key points outlined in our latest analysis for the UK and global economy

"The New Unannounced Monetary Policy" - 1st May, NIESR Blog Piece by Bill Allen

"Economists' Briefing, Covid Crisis: The UK and World Economy Contraction and Recovery" - 29th April, video, Jagjit Chadha

"Prospects for the UK Economy" - forecast from 252nd National Institute Economic Review, Cyrille Lenoel and Garry Young, 28th April 2020

"Prospects for the World Economy" - forecast from 252nd National Institute Economic Review, Barry Naisbitt et al, 28th April 2020

Jagjit Chadha's opening remarks at the launch of the 252nd National Institute Economic Review, 28th April 2020

"Monetary Policy in Troubled Times" - 27th April, Commentary to National Institute Economic Review May 2020, by Jagjit Chadha

"The slump of the 1920s" - 24 April, Preview from the National Institute Economic Review, May 2020, no 252 by Jagjit Chadha​

"Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy" - Czech National Bank, Global Economic Outlook, April 2020, by Martin Motl. Analysis at page 12 carried out using NiGEM, our in-house Global Econometric Model

"COVID-19: Debt Relief and the Global Poorest" - 23 April, NIESR Policy Paper 017 by Peter Doyle

"US and UK Labour Markets Before and During the Covid-19 Crash" - 23 April, National Institute Economic Review by David N.F. Bell and David G. Blanchflower

"The measurement of inflation during the lockdown: a trial calculation" - 22nd April, NIESR Policy Paper 016 by Huw Dixon

"Global value chains after COVID-19 and BREXIT: Is it the end of the world as we know it?" - 21st April, NIESR blog piece by Ana Rincon-Aznar

"The economy that fell to Earth" - 18th April, Prospect, by Jagjit S Chadha​

"Quantifying the global macroeconomic spillovers of illness and lockdown measures" - 17th April, Preview from the National Institute Economic Review, May 2020, no 252 by Dawn Holland and Iana Liadze.

"A Program of Guaranteed Loans to Compensate SME Covid-19 Revenue Losses: Rapid Dispersal and Large Net Economic Benefits" - 14th April, NIESR Policy Paper by Alistair Milne

"Central Bank Operations in Government Securities During the Pandemic" - 9th April, NIESR Policy Paper by William A Allen

"GDP Could Contract by 15 to 25 Per Cent in Second Quarter" - 9th April, NIESR April 2020 GDP Tracker by Dr Kemar Whyte

"The case for supporting high quality home learning environments made stronger by COVID-19" - 8th April, NIESR blog piece by Dr Claudine Bowyer-Crane

"The Economy on Ice: Preventing Economic Contagion" - 7th April, NIESR blog piece by Spiros Bougheaus

"Economic Crisis – Virtual Special Issue" - 3rd April, National Institute Economic Review

"The Economy on Ice - Meeting the economic challenges during and after the COVID-19 crisis" - 1st April, NIESR Policy Paper by Spiros Bougheas

"The Fed’s enhanced swap lines and new interventions in the Treasury market" - 30th March 2020, Discussion Paper by William A Allen and Richhild Moessner

"COVID-19 crisis: Fiscal policy should lead and the Bank of England should follow for the duration of the crisis" - 29th March 2020, VOX, by Richard Barwell, Jagjit Chadha and Michael Grady

"The only lasting antidote to pandemics is a stronger civic society" - 29th March 2020, New Statesman, by James Noyes and Adrian Pabst

"A preliminary assessment of the possible economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak: update" - 27th March 2020, NiGEM Observations by Ian Hurst, Iana Liadze, Barry Naisbitt and Garry Young

"Concentrated firepower: central banks must expand their arsenal" - 27th March 2020, Central Banking, by Philip Turner

"Monetary Policy in Troubled Times: New Governor... New Agenda" - 26th March 2020, Occasional Paper by Richard Barwell, Jagjit Chadha and Michael Grady

"Universal basic income sounds appealing—but it’s the wrong response to coronavirus" - 23rd March 2020, Prospect Magazine, by Jagjit Chadha

"Fiscal Policy for the Coronavirus Maelstrom" - 19th March 2020, blog by Peter Doyle

"Containing the Dollar Credit Crunch" - 18th March 2020, Project Syndicate, by Philip Turner

"A switch to active fiscal policy" - 11th March 2020, Budget Response Note, by Jagjit Chadha, Peter Dolton, Chaira Manzoni, Xuxin Mao, David Nguyen, Johnny Runge, Kemar Whyte and Garry Young

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