Policy publications

All contributions are co-authored by Bary Pradelski , economist at the CNRS

Academic

• SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties, Lancet (28 April 2021), M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradeksi, P. Aghion, P. Artus, I. Kickbusch, J. Lazarus, D. Sridhar and S. Vanderslot

• Green zoning: an effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, Health Policy (forthcoming, 2021), M. Oliu-Barton and B. Pradelski

Policy proposals

Health Pass

• Health pass and green zones: how to contain the virus while vaccination progresses, Esade EcPol (forthcoming, 2021), with A. Bucher and B. Pradelski

• Le pass sanitaire : une opportunité pour recouvrer nos libertés tout en restant prudents, Terra Nova (20 April 2021)

Covid-19: Green Zoning

• I. Country level. Exit strategy: from self-confinement to green zones, with Luc Attia, Esade EcPol (8 April 2020) - here in Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Español

• II. European level. Green-zone travelling: A pan-European approach to save tourism, Esade EcPol (4 May 2020) - here in Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Español

A vaccination policy by zones

• Une politique de vaccination par zones, Terra Nova (2 October 2020) - here in English.

• Who should be vaccinated first? A vaccination proposal by zones, Esade EcPol (11 November 2020) - here in Spanish

A mass testing method

• Comment tester massivement de manière efficace?, Terra Nova (18 December 2020) - here in English

• Focus mass testing: how to overcome low test accuracy, Esade EcPol (17 December 2020) - here in Spanish

Book chapters

• Zones vertes et rouges pour gérer la pandémie, Regards croisés sur le Covid-19, Chapter 19, Université Paris-Dauphine (2021)

• Green bridges: Reconnecting Europe to avoid economic disaster, Europe in the Time of Covid-19, Chapter 11, CEPR Press (2020)

• Reconectar zonas verdes europeas para salir del confinamiento y salvar el turismo, La Economia Española en tiempos de pandemia, Chapter 24, Penguin Random House (2020)

Short policy briefs

• Aiming for zero Covid-19 to ensure economic growth, with P. Aghion and P. Artus, VoxEU (31 March 2021)

• Green zones: Turning Europe’s Green Zoning strategy into a success, VoxEU (update) (9 February 2021)

• Exit strategy: Turning the Europe’s Green Zoning strategy into a success, Esade EcPol (2 February 2021)

• Green zones: A safe path towards free movement and a lasting recovery, Vox EU (update) (22 October 2020)

• A vaccination policy for green zones, VoxEU (2 October 2020)

• Green bridges : Reconnecting Europe to avoid economic disaster, Vox EU (1) (30 April 2020)

• Green zones: A proposal to exit the COVID-19 lockdown, Vox EU (25 April 2020)

Forum contributions

• Covid-19 : le faux dilemme entre santé, économie et libertés, Commentaire, with P. Aghion, P. Artus (June 2021)

• Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action, with Guntram Wolff and others, Bruegel Institute (17 February 2021)

• Vaccination contre le Covid-19: quelle stratégie pour la France?, with Guillaume Daudet and Laure Millet, Institut Montaigne (12 November 2020)

• Travel in Harmony: European co-ordination to protect green zones, OECD Forum (28 October 2020)

• Beyond Country Borders: Local measures and international co-ordination to face COVID-19, OECD Forum (18 August 2020)

• Toward a European network of "green zones" to avoid summer collapse, OECD Forum (19 May 2020)

• Green zones: a mathematical proposal for how to exit from the COVID-19 lockdown, World Economic Forum (17 April 2020)

• Du confinement au marquage vert: une stratégie de sortie de crise, La Recherche (24 April 2020)

Opinion pieces

• Le recours temporaire à un passe sanitaire est nécessaire si nous voulons une sortie de crise durable, Le Monde, with P. Aghion, P. Martin, and B. Pradelski (2 June 2021)

• Nous avons besoin d’un passe sanitaire fiable, temporaire et accessible pour tout le monde, with Anne Bucher, Le Monde (22 March 2021)

• Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action, co-signed by a group of scientists from all accross Europe appeared in 6 European languges/countries (16 Feb 2021):

  • Viser l'objectif zéro Covid consistue un moyen clair de traverser la pandémie en minimisant les dégats, Le Monde

  • Obiettivo zero Covid: l'Europa deve agire, La Repubblica

  • Wie wir ohne Covid-19 leben können, Süddeutsche Zeitung

  • Met groene zones zijn landelijke lockdowns voorbij (want Europa als een zee van zones, dát is ons toekomstplan), De Volkskrant

  • Podzielmy kraje na strefy, Rzceszpospolita

  • Establecer zonas 'verdes' libres del virus, El País (26 February 2021)

• Igualdad, fraternidad… y eficacia: ¿quién debe ser prioritario y según qué criterios?, El Mundo (2 December 2020)

• Covid-19 : « Qui vacciner en priorité ? Selon quels critères ? Comment hiérarchiser tout cela ? », Le Monde (21 November 2020)

• Sanctuarisons les zones vertes !, Les Echos (14 October 2020)

• La vuelta al cole será peor de lo que imaginamos, with Toni Roldan, El País (19 September 2020)

• Más allá de las fronteras nacionales, El País (17 September 2020)

• Coronavirus : il faut «un plan de reconfinements ciblés réaliste, intelligible et commun», Le Monde (26 August 2020)

• Sauver la saison touristique européenne, Le Monde (9 May 2020)

• Conectando las "zonas verdes" de Europa: una propuesta para salvar el turismo, El Mundo (5 May 2020)

• Il faut une méthode de déconfinement efficace et sécurisée, Le Monde (27 April 2020)