COVID-19 and Economy

The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy. The vulnerability of human beings in the face of nature and uncertain elements is clearer than ever. Digital technology brings us hope by bringing a giant leap forward in capabilities to sense, collect, and analyze information. Luohan Academy is at the forefront of using digital technology to analyze the impacts of the pandemic and find insights of economic recovery.

2020 Year in Review: The COVID-19 Pandemic Economy Explained in 10 Charts

Luohan AcademyDec 28, 2020

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As COVID-19 Accelerates Automation, How Do We Stop the Drift into Long-term Unemployment?

Sir Christopher PissaridesJul 28, 2020

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Five Lessons from Tracking the Global Pandemic Economy

Long Chen, Michael SpenceJul 26, 2020

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Economies in the Time of Coronavirus

Alvin E. RothJul 17, 2020

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Luohan Webinar: Neng Wang (Columbia) on “Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks”

Understanding pandemic risk from a more scientific perspective

Nov 02, 2020

Grim Time Ahead of Europe and North America Explained in Eight Charts

We’ve generated eight charts to help understand the trajectories of countries in Europe and North America and the economic challenges ahead.

Oct 29, 2020 Luohan Academy

Econ 3.0? What Economists Can Contribute To (and Learn From) the Pandemic

Oct 21, 2020 MIT Tech Review Editorial Team

Sustainability and Digital Transformation of the Tourism Industry

Sep 16, 2020 Luohan Academy

Other Programs

Privacy and Data Governance

Data has become the fundamental driving force for economic growth and innovation. Due to its unique nature and as a mechanism for value creation, every link produced by data has also brought challenges in consumer privacy, data security, and data ownership. By promoting the understanding from researchers, policymakers, and business experts from all over the world, Luohan Academy aims to push for a consensus on data governance best practices, privacy protection, and data security so that we can better integrate data into our daily life effectively, safely, and trustingly.

Digital Technology and Inclusive Growth

Digital technologies exhibit the features of zero marginal cost and network effects bring welfare externalities. This promotes inclusive business activities and inclusive financial services. Luohan Academy engages in research on how does technology innovations bring long term growth space and the methods to deal with the various challenges along the way.

Measuring the New Economy

Digital technology has been reforming the economy in an unprecedented way. It brings along new business models, increasing varieties of goods, widespread availability of free services, and ever-growing importance of intangible assets. All of these have a profound impact on the measurement of economic activity and, thus how we understand economic prosperity and, ultimately, social welfare. With big data enabled by technology, Luohan Academy works closely with academia, policy-makers, and business leaders to achieve ever-updating insights on the fundamental changes and measurement of the actual impact.

Platform Economics

Enabled by digital technology, platform creates coordination at unprecedented scale. However, concerns and debates over the platforms’ growing market power, the social responsibility of platforms, and the rules on platforms, are looming. It is time to bring together the insights of researchers, policy makers and practitioners to think about the platform’s value, governance and more inclusive future.

Future Finance

The nature of finance is to allocate scarce resources across sizes, time, and risks, and to facilitate the real economy and innovation. Similar to Industrial Revolution, the digital revolution has changed the financial services, institutions, and financial markets profoundly. Based on worldwide frontier financial innovations, Luohan Academy leads the research on future finance with scholars and policy makers, to promote an inclusive, affordable, diverse, and sustainable financial system for the real economy.

Technomics

From a materialistic point of view, humans becoming who we are, is defined by the tools and technical capabilities we possess. The most important element to economic growth and welfare increase is technological advancement. Luohan Academy wants to establish a complete framework to analyze the dynamics of technological progression interwoven with economics, politics, social mechanism, and finance. The direction of technology will light the way to our future path.

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