Second-year Economics PhD student Niklas Schmitz has received three awards for his paper which he presented in different conferences.
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“When considering the cost of social distancing, it might be assumed that voluntary measures have a lower economic cost,” says Professor Corsetti. “However, we investigated the economic costs of mandatory rules compared to optional social distance guidance, and found the economic cost is broadly similar. This is strikingly – and not what many people would assume.”
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Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes's research "A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of Covid-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model" has been featured in an article for the University of Cambridge Research News. Dr Mohaddes suggests a lengthy global recession looms as a result of COVID-19, with no country "immune".
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Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes was interviewed for the Iranian newspaper, Donya-e-Eqtesad. The article looks at the impact of Covid-19 on the Iranian economy as well as the global economy.
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“The Covid-19 pandemic is a global shock ‘like no other’, involving simultaneous disruptions to both supply and demand in an interconnected world economy,” says Kamiar Mohaddes, a Fellow in Economics at King's College, Cambridge.
Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, with Alexander Chudik (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), M Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California), Mehdi Raissi (IMF) and Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) have published an article for VOXeu titled "
Dr Kamiar Mohaddes, with Alexander Chudik (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), M Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California), Mehdi Raissi (IMF) and Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) have published an article for VOXeu titled "
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller and Keith Kuester's article "In a Great Recession, the case for flexible exchange rates is alive and well" has been published on the VoxEU website.
The first post-Referendum analysis of the UK economy was provided in early August by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. In which there was considered to be a 50:50 chance of a technical recession for the UK following the referendum result.