Comment

Debt restructuring and cancellation should discriminate between those institutions that have acted properly and those that have entered into deals with corrupt governments. A column by Daron Acemoglu.

Covid-shocks are causing a rethink across the economy. Governments must follow up with the appropriate policies. A column by John B. Taylor.

China will have to demonstrate that rule of law and judicial independence apply to its international financial affairs. From this perspective, recent events in Hong Kong are discouraging. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

Arguably the most relevant US historical parallel for Europe today is President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s. A column by Daniel Gros.

As governments enact sweeping emergency measures, including to combat disinformation and trace the contacts of infected people, the crisis has created a threat to digital freedom. A column by Mark Stephens.

On instructions from Beijing, China’s diplomats operate in the style of «wolf warriors». Although this is counterproductive, the ambassadors have to put allegiance first. A column by Minxin Pei.

The current model of globalization needs adjusting, but building resilience does not mean tearing down the entire system and starting over again. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Debt is a dangerous instrument. For far too long, the world has used it to avoid necessary decisions. In the midst of an unprecedented global crisis, something will have to give. A column by Willem H. Buiter.

The real lesson of the Covid-19 crisis is not that robots are the key to economic dynamism, but that they mean little without human agency. A column by Sami Mahroum.

The Covid-19 crisis offers important lessons; but it has not furnished any good arguments against trade or global supply chains. A column by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg.

To exit the Coronavirus-crisis, it should be a policy priority to keep people attached to the labor force. But these concerns are almost inexistent in the current political discourse. A column by Fabrizio Zilibotti.

The GCC’s ruling was a necessary reminder that the EU is a community based on the rule of law, and that only its sovereign member states can develop it further. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.