Macro Musings with David Beckworth29 Huhti 2020

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on Central Bank Digital Currency and the Current Economic Responses to COVID-19

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate with the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a returning guest to the podcast. Jesus specializes in macroeconomic modeling and economic history among other topics, and he joins Macro Musings to talk about COVID-19, central bank digital currency, and developments in the Eurozone. David and Jesus also discuss the history of central banks and the interacting public, how threatening inflation could become a useful tool for a central bank, and the value economic modeling could add to the epidemiological field.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Jesus's UPenn profile: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/

Jesus's NBER archive: https://www.nber.org/people/jesus_fernandez-villaverde

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