In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus. While this policy is welcome in the short run, it does not address the underlying problem in the medium and long run. The reason is that the pandemic has not given rise to a...

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This paper updates the analysis of the global macroeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in earlier papers by the authors with data as of late October 2020. It also extends the focus to Asian economies and explores four alternative policy interventions that are coordinated across all...

Die vorliegende Ex-ante-Analyse untersucht die konjunkturellen, fiskalischen und verteilungspolitischen Wirkungen der im Zuge der COVID-19-Krise beschlossenen Maßnahmen zur Stützung der Einkommen und der Investitionstätigkeit auf drei aufeinander aufbauenden Ebenen: der Mikro-, Makro- und...