This paper from Dorine Boumans, Sebastian Link and Stefan Sauer (EconPol Europe, ifo Institute) presents the results of a survey of 1000 economic experts in 110 countries on the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effectiveness of different policy measures to combat the crisis for...

Das ifo Institut hat rund 1 000 Ökonom*innen in 110 Ländern zu den Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Weltwirtschaft befragt: Ihren Antworten zufolge werden sich vor allem Investitionskürzungen erheblich negativ auswirken. Aber auch steigende Haushaltsdefizite der Staaten, geringere...

Zu den kurz- und langfristigen Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Weltwirtschaft hat das ifo Institut im August 950 Ökonom*innen in 110 Ländern befragt. Die von den Expert*innen für nahezu alle Länder erwarteten deutlich negativen Wachstumsraten des Bruttoinlandsprodukts im Jahr 2020...

As the economy and our daily life return to a "new-normal" in the midst of Covid-19, the possibility of a second wave leaves lots of uncertainty about future developments. To understand indications about the impact of the pandemic on economic performance in different countries across the world,...

Identifying narratives in texts is a challenging task, as not only narrative elements such as the factors and events have to be identified but their semantic relation has to be explained as well. Despite this complexity, an effective technique to extract narratives from texts can have a great...

The prompt availability of information on the current state of the economy in real-time is required for prediction purposes and crucial for timely policy adjustment and economic decision-making. While important macroeconomic indicators are reported only quarterly and also published with...

In this paper, we present a new indicator to measure the media coverage of inflation. Our Inflation Perception Indicator (IPI) for Germany is based on a corpus of three million articles published by broadsheet newspapers between January 2001 and November 2022. It is designed to detect thematic...