PMF - Skanda Amarnath Yakov Feygin And Elizabeth Pancotti On Municipal Bond Market Intervention And The CARES Act As Responses To COVID-19
Passing the CARES Act and enabling the Fed to buy municipal bonds are two steps toward a robust response to COVID-19 and its adverse economic impact.
Skanda Amarnath is the Director of Research and Analysis at Employ America, Yakov Feygin is the Associate Director of the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute, and Elizabeth Pancotti is a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at Tufts University. Together, they have put together proposals on how to better address the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis at the state and local level.