La versione italiana di questo documento è disponibile al seguente link: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3663335The present Report analyses the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as of the first semester of 2020 both in the domestic and in the international framework. Some analysis are updated...

This report discusses the economic impact of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis across industries, and countries. It also provides estimates of the potential global economic costs of COVID-19, and the GDP growth of different countries. The current draft includes estimates for 30 countries, under...

In this paper, an issue of major policy significance pertaining to assessing the impact of COVID-19 beyond the short-term on India’s macroeconomy has been addressed by developing two restricted vector autoregression (VAR) models. These models enable an assessment of the detrimental impact of...

Many economist wonder how and when national economies will recover after the fall of quarantine for COVID-19. Based on the article we can say that different types of economies (The types are described below in the article) will recover differently. The fastest will recover small, predominantly...

Alternative data is transforming the investment management process for financial industry, hedge funds, mutual funds, foundations, and pension funds. This paper describes the use of alternative data on the field of finance, particularly illustrating the complex forces driving the stock markets...

This paper investigates the effect of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy on employment via a bank lending channel. We find that banks with higher mortgage-backed securities holdings issued relatively more loans after the first and third rounds of quantitative easing (QE1 and...

Initial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announcements are important economic signals that convey information on the state of the economy but contain substantial estimation error. We investigate how GDP estimation errors affect firms' real decisions and profitability. Consistent with theoretical...