Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published an article in the Economics Observatory. With the worst of the pandemic now behind us, it is time to take stock of how the government dealt with the crisis and to learn important lessons for the future
In this article, Dr Toxvaerd, and Tony Yates (independent economist), Kurt Mitman (IIES, Stockholm University), Ben Moll (LSE) and Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick), ask the key questions surround the Treasury’s decision not to use integrated ‘epi-macro modelling’ to inform its policy-making.
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