Developing countries (DCs) encounter the COVID-19 pandemic under distinctly different preconditions than high income countries. With a young population and permanently challenged by major infectious diseases like malaria and TB, but insufficient health infrastructure and poor public...

This paper examines the recent increase of the measured inflation rate to assess the degree to which the acceleration is due to problems created (largely on the supply side) by the pandemic versus pressures created on the demand side by pandemic relief. Some have attributed the inflation to...

Market reactions to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) provide new insights into how real shocks and financial policies drive firm value. Initially, internationally oriented firms, especially those more exposed to trade with China, underperformed. As the virus spread to Europe and the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Does the Science of Monetary Policy Need to Be Altered? -- Chapter 2. New Challenges on the Science of Monetary Policy -- Chapter 2. New Lessons for Macroeconomics and Finance Theory -- Chapter 4. In Search for a New Monetary Policy Framework -- Part 2:...