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Preparing for future pandemics: stress tests and wargames

Milne, Frank; Longworth, David J. - 2020

There is an important interdependence between economic, financial and health policy actions. The recent Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated that, apart from the direct economic consequences from illness and death from the virus, the main economic and financial costs have been due to the varying...

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US Government Bond Liquidity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ermolov, Andrey - 2020

US government bond illiquidity measures began rising during the last week of February 2020. Several of them surpassed the Great Recession levels during the second week of March. Illiquidity spikes do not seem to match with proposed explanatory events. The illiquidity measures of the most...

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The ECB's pandemic emergency purchase programme and fiscal policy : synergies or conflict?

Afonso, António; Ferreira, Jorge Braga - 2025

We assess how countries’ fiscal policies during COVID-19 pandemic influenced the effects of the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) on sovereign bond Option-Adjusted Spreads. Using a cross-sectional regression model with country and time-fixed effects, we analyse a sample of 1,368...

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The COVID-19 crisis and the structural problems of Latin America and the Caribbean: responding to the emergency with a long-term perspective

Abeles, Martín; Pérez Caldentey, Esteban; Porcile, Gabriel - In: CEPAL review (2020) 132, pp. 143-170

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COVID-19 and public support for the euro

Roth, Felix; Jonung, Lars; Most, Aisada - 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had disastrous effects on health and economic activity worldwide, including in the Euro Area. The application of mandatory lockdowns contributed to a sharp fall in production and a rise in unemployment, inducing an expansionary fiscal and monetary response. Using a uniquely...

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COVID-19 and public support for the euro

Roth, Felix; Jonung, Lars; Most, Aisada - 2022

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COVID-19 Pandemic, Direct Cash Transfers, and the Federal Reserve

Beckworth, David - 2020

Over the past few years, some observers have been warning that the Fed needs to update its operating framework to include a level target and the ability to implement direct cash transfers in special situations like the current crisis. They make the case that it is better for the Fed to provide...

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The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden : don't lockdown

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2023

The coronavirus pandemic triggered strong political action across Europe. Mandatory restrictions to increase social …, Sweden, served as an outlier. It restricted the spread of the virus primarily through voluntary measures rather than strict … lockdowns. In this study, we compare the health and economic outcomes in Sweden with those of comparable Western European …

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The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden : don't lock down

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 44 (2024) 1, pp. 3-16

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Moving closer or drifting apart : distributional effects on monetary policy

Hafemann, Lucas; Rudel, Paul; Schmidt, Jörg - 2017

Our paper picks up the current controversial debate about increasing (income) inequality due to recent monetary policy measures in major advanced economies. We use a VAR framework identified with sign restrictions to figure out how income in- equality related measures react to monetary policy...

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