remittance data. The paper documents a strong resilience in remittance flows, notwithstanding an unprecedent global recession …

information campaigns - rather than stay-at-home requirements. Using past coronavirus outbreaks as an instrumental variable, we …

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the … international organizations attempted to assess the "greenness" of the fiscal policy response of the world's largest economies. This …

Abstract In this paper we ask whether countries can influence their exposure to changes in global financial conditions …. Specifically, we show that even though we can model cross-country capital flows via a global factor that closely tracks changes in … global financial conditions, there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the sensitivity of each country to this same global …

global datasets. During the pandemic, fiscal frameworks were put to test. The widespread use of escape clauses was one of the …