Assorted readings for this week: financial markets, corporate finance, banking, financial services and digital economics
Here we are some recommended articles about financial markets, corporate finance, banking, financial services, digital economics regulation and finally an infographic about the 5G technology. 1. COVID-19, asset prices, and the Great Reallocation. Whether COVID-19 will trigger a massive reallocation of capital and labour is a key question for policymakers and investors alike. This column shows that asset markets reveal large cross-sectional differences in the repricing of industries before, during, and after the onset of COVID-19. Firms that are more resilient to social distancing significantly outperformed in the six years before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. Looking into the future, stock options imply that investors require significantly lower returns from more pandemic-resilient firms. Governments would be unwise to ignore these signals, directing public financial resources mainly to prop up ailing low-resilience firms ( VoxEU ). 2. Three degrees of separation: H