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Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a leading scholar on management, productivity, innovation and economic uncertainty. Nick is a previous guest of Macro Musings and returns to share his thoughts on COVID-19 and what it means for the US economy, both in the short-run and in the long-run. David and Nick also discuss the impact of the virus on the future of urban living, on the economics profession as a whole, and who will bear the biggest brunt of these impacts.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Nick's NBER archive: https://www.nber.org/people/nick_bloom

Nick's Stanford profile: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/nicholas-bloom

Related Links:

Bonus segment with Nick: https://youtu.be/q2M0TLwV_Xw

*COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty* by Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, and Stephen J. Terry.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26983

*U.S. Economic Activity During the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak* by Daniel J. Lewis, Karel Mertens, and Jim Stock.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr920

*Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?* by Ulrike Malmendier and Stefan Nagel.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1369049

*Managing with Style* by Marianne Bertrand and Antoi