• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic 

      Alemán, Christian; Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander; Santaeulàlia-Llopis, Raül (2020-11-12)
      We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We ...
    • The Time for Austerity: Estimating the Average Treatment Effect of Fiscal Policy 

      Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. (2014-04-01)
      After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty ...