Economic Bites

Susana Peralta, Bruno Carvalho and João Pereira dos Santos have a new working paper where they investigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in private consumption in Portugal.

Professors Pedro Brinca and João Duarte, alongside FED investigator Miguel Ferreira-e-Castro have developed a model to measure labour demand and supply shocks during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic

“The analysis confirms that services policies are typically much more restrictive than tariffs on imports of goods, in particular in professional services and telecommunications.” VoxEU

Labor productivity has been showing a countercyclical behavior.

"Mario Draghi led his last monetary policy meeting as president of the European Central Bank on Thursday, his legacy as savior of the eurozone clouded by divisions among the bank’s policymakers that have burst into the open in the final months of his tenure."

From Bretton Woods to Brexit, a timely take on the importance of global economic cooperation.

It is hard to track the coming and going of politicians between public office and private corporations. This visualization, detailing the sequential private and public affiliations of Portuguese politicians, between 1975 and 2013, may help.

Not sure the yield curve “predicts the future”, but this is one of thecoolest visualizations in economics, charting the yield of US titles of different maturities in the last 25 years. And more.

The new IMF DataMapper is really cool and useful.It makes available a wide selection of key economic indicators from 12 of the organization’s datasets.

(…) Two former students from Nova, Luís Fonseca and Miguel Aguiar, have summoned the Simpsons to explain the algebra and illustrate the mechanism.