Call for Papers - Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers

CEPR has launched a new online (lightly) peer-reviewed publication to disseminate emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. Very quickly after the onset of the epidemic, a large number of policy papers were produced by economic scholars, many of which have appeared on VoxEU. This has been enormously helpful to improve our understanding of policy options. The next step requires more formal investigations, based on explicit theory and/or empirical evidence. This is what Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers aims to provide.

Submissions will be promptly evaluated by the Editorial Board, over a maximum of 5 days, on an accept/reject basis, i.e. no resubmission and no referee report. When a sufficient number of papers (4-6) are accepted, an issue of the Covid Economics will be published online by CEPR Press. Thus the frequency of the review will be determined endogenously. We consider this to be a preprint, which is common in medicine where results have to be out quickly as input into the debate; it will still be possible to submit papers to a traditional journal at a later date.

We are looking for reasonably short papers (approx. 5000 words, though this is not a requirement; submissions could be longer or shorter than this) that make a clear contribution.

Founder:
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, President of CEPR

Editor:
Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute Geneva and CEPR

Editorial board:

• Viral Acharya, Stern School of Business, NYU and CEPR
• Guido Alfani, Bocconi University and CEPR
• Franklin Allen, Imperial College Business School and CEPR

• Michele Belot, Cornell University and CEPR

• David Bloom, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Tito Boeri, Bocconi University and CEPR
• Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University and CEPR
• Michael Burda, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin and CEPR

• Luis Cabral, New York University and CEPR

• Paola Conconi, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR

• Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge and CEPR
• Fiorella De Fiore, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and CEPR
• Mathias Dewatripont, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR

• Jonathan Dingel, University of Chicago Booth School and CEPR

• Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley and CEPR
• Simon Evenett, University of St Gallen and CEPR

• Maryam Farboodi, MIT and CEPR

• Antonio Fatas, INSEAD Singapore and CEPR
• Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University and CEPR
• Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Paris School of Economics and CEPR
• Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR
• Timothy J.Hatton, University of Essex and CEPR
• Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics and CEPR
• Beata Javorcik, EBRD and CEPR
• Simon Johnson , MIT and CEPR
• Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and CEPR
• Tom Kompas, University of Melbourne and CEBRA

• Miklos Koren, Central European University and CEPR

• Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and CEPR

• Michael Kuhn, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Wittgenstein Centre

• Maarten Lindeboom, VU University Amsterdam

• Philippe Martin, Sciences Po and CEPR
• Warwick McKibbin, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
• Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, NYU Abu Dhabi and CEPR
• Evi Pappa, European University Institute and CEPR
• Barbara Petrongolo, Queen Mary University, London, LSE and CEPR
• Richard Portes, London Business School and CEPR
• Carol Propper, Imperial College London and CEPR
• Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School and CEPR
• Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and CEPR
• Helene Rey, London Business School and CEPR
• Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne and CEPR
• Kjell G. Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics and CEPR

• Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and CEPR

• Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn and CEPR
• Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR

• Flavio Toxvaerd, University of Cambridge

• Christoph Trebesch, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel and CEPR

• Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo and CEPR

• Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics and CEPR
• Jan C. van Ours, Erasmus School of Economics