The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have created a deep global recession, induced massive government interventions and forced a change in the social and economic behaviour of economic agents. This raises many questions about the path to economic recovery and the...

Against the background of the corona crisis, we have decided not to hold our conference physically at ZEW Mannheim this year. Instead, we are planning a small online conference on 2 July 2020. The objective of the conference is to discuss recent scientific contributions to the economics of...