COVID-19 Crisis Response
This special policy brief series is intended to promote effective ideas among key decision-makers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These briefs have been internally reviewed but not peer reviewed.
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Latest work in COVID-19 Crisis Response
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The Three Best and Worst Ideas of the Crisis
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Can U.S. Universities Make a Comeback? A Debate
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CDC Failure and Mission Sprawl
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Should China Pay Reparations?
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Resolving Roadblocks to Activating Additional Physicians
- | Regulation Regulation
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Small Business Recovery after COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Reforming Medicaid Reimbursement before the Next Pandemic
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Raising the Bar: ICU Beds and Certificates of Need
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Predictable Unintended Consequences
- | Regulation Regulation
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We Need a New Base Realignment and Closure Commission -- Not a New Bureaucracy
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No Prudent Policymakers in Sight
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Immigration Will Be Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
- | Regulation Regulation
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COVID-19 Reveals the Need for a Regulatory Reset
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Emergency Executive Powers: Not Needed Indefinitely
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Prudence during Good Times Means Ability to Spend during Bad Times
Latest work in COVID-19 Crisis Response
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Three Best and Worst Ideas of the Crisis
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Can U.S. Universities Make a Comeback? A Debate
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
CDC Failure and Mission Sprawl
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Should China Pay Reparations?
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Resolving Roadblocks to Activating Additional Physicians
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Small Business Recovery after COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Reforming Medicaid Reimbursement before the Next Pandemic
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Raising the Bar: ICU Beds and Certificates of Need
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Predictable Unintended Consequences
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
We Need a New Base Realignment and Closure Commission -- Not a New Bureaucracy
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
No Prudent Policymakers in Sight
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Immigration Will Be Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
COVID-19 Reveals the Need for a Regulatory Reset
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Emergency Executive Powers: Not Needed Indefinitely
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Prudence during Good Times Means Ability to Spend during Bad Times
Latest work in COVID-19 Crisis Response
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
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Aggregated Smartphone Location Data to Assist in Response to Pandemic
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Federalism and Polycentric Government in a Pandemic
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
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Liberalize, Sanitize, Digitize: Three Urgent Trade Policy Priorities in a Pandemic Age
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Assessing Healthcare Capacity in India
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
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Express Loans for Small Business: Supplementing the CARES Act
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
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A Pivot to a Services Trade Agenda Can Help Economic Growth
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
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Reforming the Fed’s Toolkit and Quantitative Easing Practices: A Plan to Achieve Level Targeting
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Time to Prepare for Voting by Mail
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Running ahead of Pandemics: Achieving In-Advance Antiviral Drugs
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
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How Drones Can Help Fight the Coronavirus
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COVID-19 and Pretrial Detention
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness
- | Regulation Regulation
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Relax Pharmacy Regulations to help with COVID-19 Testing and Treatment
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
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Relief Fund Allocation Is No Place to Play Politics
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
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First, Do No Harm: Three Ways That Policymakers Can Make It Easier for Healthcare Professionals to Do Their Jobs
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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A Primer on Emergency Occupational Licensing Reforms for Combating COVID-19
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The Limits of Infrastructure Stimulus
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The Case against Bailing Out the Airline Industry
- | Healthcare Healthcare
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Use Surplus Federal Real Property to Expand Medical and Quarantine Capacity for COVID-19
Latest work in COVID-19 Crisis Response
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Predictable Unintended Consequences
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
We Need a New Base Realignment and Closure Commission -- Not a New Bureaucracy
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
No Prudent Policymakers in Sight
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Immigration Will Be Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Prudence during Good Times Means Ability to Spend during Bad Times
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Monumental Failure of the CDC
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Surface-Level Public Policy Prescriptions Exacerbate the Pandemic
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
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Drones helped in Katrina, they can help during COVID-19
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Life Is Completely Different, Except for the Bureaucrats
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Small Business Aid May Come with a Lot of Headaches
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The Way Forward
Policy proposals from the Mercatus Center to jump start America's economy now
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Why Are We Responding Slower Today Than during the Last Pandemic?
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The Problems with the Democrats’ New Proposal
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Emergency policy responses should be realistic
- | Housing Housing
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How Mortgages Can Ease the Downturn
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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
- | Government Spending Government Spending
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Will We Survive the Washington Stimulus Panic?
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Big Business Is Helping America Survive the Coronavirus
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