Mar 11, 2021
Three economists discuss how they have used high-frequency datasets to track the health of the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic — Marios Karabarbounis and Nicholas Trachter of the Richmond Fed and Adam Blandin of Virginia Commonwealth University. Karabarbounis and Trachter compile the Pandemic Pulse, while Blandin runs the Real Time Population Survey with Alexander Bick of Arizona State University.