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, featuring 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. Covid Economics, which is vetted by Editors for quality and relevance, aims to collate some of the best economic research on Covid-19 so that it might inform the academic and policy debate in an acute crisis when results have to circulate fast. It has been extremely well received by both the academic and policy-making communities. 

Building on this success, CEPR and the Graduate Institute, Geneva are holding an online seminar series which presents selected papers published in Covid Economics.

The seminars will be at 14h00 (CEST) on Tuesdays on a weekly basis. We have started in the month of May and we will continue throughout June and July. 
The forthcoming seminars will feature: 

• On the 2nd of June Gregor Jarosch will present his paper "Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic" and published in Issue 9 of Covid Economics. 
• Jonathan Dingel, on the 9th of June, presenting the paper "How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?", published in Covid Economics, Issue 1. 
• On Tuesday 16th of June, Tito Boeri will discuss his paper "Mitigating the work-safety trade-off" published in Issue 2 of Covid Economics.
• On the 23rd of June Luis Cabral will present the paper "Seller Reputation and Price Gouging: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic" published in Issue 12.
• Francesco Lippi will present the paper "A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown" published in Issue 14 of Covid Economics on the 30th of June. 

The format of the seminar will be as follows: the speakers will have 40 minutes to present their research. During those 40 minutes, questions will be limited to clarifying questions. After that, there will be 20 minutes for general questions and discussions moderated by an academic from the Graduate Institute.

Feel free to forward this email to people at your institution who may be interested, including graduate students.