https://www.scmp.com/rss/508777/feed Jie Gan is associate dean, professor of finance and director of the Centre on Finance and Economic Growth at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining the CKGSB, she served as a professor (with tenure) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and an assistant professor (tenure track) at Columbia Business School. Professor Gan holds a PhD in financial economics from MIT. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com We are now a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and one question remains: when will the global economy recover from what has been called the worst pandemic in over 100 years? Central to the uncertainty surrounding this question are the two very different stories that the financial markets and the real economy have painted. On one hand, the stock market has rebounded marvellously since the pandemic sell-off last March, realising a sharp V-shaped recovery to 2019 levels of activity. To the extent... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3121165/what-500-years-history-tells-us-about-long-term-economic-impact?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3121165/what-500-years-history-tells-us-about-long-term-economic-impact?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:15:07 +0000