About Covid Economics published by CEPR (2021)
“Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, launched at the end of March 2020, is a free online CEPR publication. It has been created to quickly disseminate fast-rising scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic. Alongside VoxEU, which presents short analyses on the epidemic and other economic issues, Covid Economics features more formal investigations, based on explicit theory and/or empirical evidence.
The Covid-19 breakout challenges all areas of economics including, but not only, health, industrial organization, macroeconomics, finance, history, development, inequality, political economy and public finance, and concerns theory as well as empirical evidence. We are welcoming submissions in all these areas and we aim to have a wide geographical coverage.
Covid Economics is special in three respects:
- It presents research in real time. The submissions are evaluated swiftly, within five days, and appear online a few days later.
- The papers are vetted by Editors for quality and relevance. Vetting is different from refereeing in the sense that the decision is up or down, with no possibility of revising and resubmitting.
- The articles are pre-prints, meaning that authors, who retain copyright, may later submit to established reviews. The list of reviews that have announced that they will accept revised versions of papers featured in Covid Economics appears in each issue.
The vetting process aims at making Covid Economics a reliable source of on-going academic research.
The accepted papers are collated in ‘issues’. There is no preset periodicity of the issues. They are posted whenever a sufficient number of papers are accepted.”
