Discussion Paper
Does China’s Zero Covid Strategy Mean Zero Economic Growth?
Clark, Hunter L.; Lin, Lawrence (2022-06-02)
The Chinese government has followed a “zero covid strategy” (ZCS) ever since the world’s first COVID-19 lockdowns ended in China around late March and early April of 2020. While this strategy has been effective at maintaining low infection levels and robust manufacturing and export activity, its viability is being severely strained by the spread of increasingly infectious coronavirus variants. As a result, there now appears to be a fundamental incompatibility between the ZCS and the government’s economic growth objectives.
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20220602

Discussion Paper
The Global Supply Side of Inflationary Pressures
Noble, Adam I.; Benigno, Gianluca; Lin, Lawrence; Heymann, Ruth Cesar; Abbai, Belai; Groen, Jan J. J.; di Giovanni, Julian; Akinci, Ozge (2022-01-28)
U.S. inflation has surged as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 recession. This phenomenon has not been confined to the U.S. economy, as similar inflationary pressures have emerged in other advanced economies albeit not with the same intensity. In this post, we draw from the current international experiences to provide an assessment of the drivers of U.S. inflation. In particular, we exploit the link among different measures of inflation at the country level and a number of global supply side variables to uncover which common cross-country forces have been driving observed inflation. Our ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20220128