Question A: State payments to firms to keep employees on payroll is an effective way to speed the state's recovery from recession.
Question A: State payments to firms to keep employees on payroll is an effective way to speed the state's recovery from recession.
| Economist | Institution | Opinion | Confidence | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Andreas | Bluffton University | Uncertain | 7 | Given the state's balanced budget requirement, it wouldn't do much if the money doesn't come from a federal sources. A federal stimulus works better because the money can be borrowed cheaply (often from the Fed). |
| Greg Arburn | University of Findlay | Agree | 10 | Depending on federal fiscal poicy. |
| Bizuayehu Bedane | Marietta College | Agree | 9 | |
| Kevin Egan | University of Toledo | Agree | 9 | Businesses need to know now both that there will be aid and that they need to keep paying their workers close to normal pay in order to get it. |
| Kenneth Fah | Ohio Dominican University | Agree | 9 | |
| Hasan Faruq | Xavier University | Agree | 9 | |
| Bob Gitter | Ohio Wesleyan University | Agree | 7 | Although it is helpful to keep spending up, there are firms that really would not be laying off workers, e.g. utilities, grocery stores, delivery services and others. The program should be targeted and not available to all firms. |
| Nancy Haskell | University of Dayton | Agree | 9 | |
| Paul Holmes | Ashland University | Uncertain | 8 | |
| Faria Huq | Lake Erie College | Disagree | 8 | |
| Michael Jones | University of Cincinnati | Uncertain | 7 | Germany operates its unemployment system, Kurzarbeit, this way. If the pandemic quickly recedes, this is a good solution. But if there are more permanent disruptions, then labor needs to separate and reallocate to speed recover from the recession. |
| Fadhel Kaboub | Denison University | Strongly Agree | 10 | Ideally, the federal government ought to provide a transition job guarantee or cover the payroll when no alternative employment options are available. States can administer these programs with federal funding. |
| Trevon Logan | Ohio State University | Agree | 8 | |
| Joe Nowakowski | Muskingum University | Agree | 9 | It will be effective, but only as part of a comprehensive plan that involves making workplaces safe. |
| Mingming Pan | Wright State University | Strongly Disagree | 10 | |
| Curtis Reynolds | Kent State University | Agree | 6 | |
| Lewis Sage | Baldwin Wallace University | Agree | 10 | Policy a) constitutes fiscal stimulus, reducing the depth of the recession; b) preserves the employment relation, speeding expansion post-recession. |
| Dean Snyder | Antioch College | Disagree | 7 | |
| Albert Sumell | Youngstown State University | Strongly Agree | 9 | I would prefer the question read "Government payments to firms..." It's not the specific source that determines the effectivess of the payments |
| Melissa Thomasson | Miami University | Agree | 9 | |
| Thomas Traynor | Wright State University | Agree | 7 | The strength of my agreement with the statement depends on what, if any, state spending is given up elsewhere. |
| Ejindu Ume | Miami University | Disagree | 8 | |
| Mark Votruba | Case Western Reserve University | Agree | 7 | |
| Andy Welki | John Carroll University | Agree | 4 | It is one possible way to put some support on the household consumption expenditures |
| Kathryn Wilson | Kent State University | Agree | 5 | |
| Rachel Wilson | Wittenberg University | Agree | 6 |