{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on Central Bank Digital Currency and the Current Economic Responses to COVID-19","description":"Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate with the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a returning guest to the podcast. Jesus specializes in macroeconomic modeling and economic history among other topics, and he joins Macro Musings to talk about COVID-19, central bank digital currency, and developments in the Eurozone. David and Jesus also discuss the history of central banks and the interacting public, how threatening inflation could become a useful tool for a central bank, and the value economic modeling could add to the epidemiological field. &amp;nbsp; Transcript for the episode can be found  here. &amp;nbsp; Jesus\u2019s UPenn profile: https:\/\/www.sas.upenn.edu\/~jesusfv\/ Jesus\u2019s NBER archive: https:\/\/www.nber.org\/people\/jesus_fernandez-villaverde &amp;nbsp; Related Links: &amp;nbsp; Bonus segment with Jesus:  https:\/\/youtu.be\/CA6y9LqjDwQ &amp;nbsp; *Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities* by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde &amp; Charles Jones https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~chadj\/sird-paper.pdf &amp;nbsp; *Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking For All?* by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Daniel Sanches, Linda Schilling, &amp; Harald Uhlig  https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.edu\/working-paper\/central-bank-digital-currency-central-banking-for-all\/ &amp;nbsp; *Central Bank Digital Currency in a Nominal World* by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Daniel Sanches, Linda Schilling, &amp; Harald Uhlig https:\/\/www.sas.upenn.edu\/~jesusfv\/CBDC_Nominal.pdf &amp;nbsp; David\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth ","author_name":"Macro Musings with David Beckworth","author_url":"http:\/\/macromarketmusings.blogspot.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14195045\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/71353520"}