Deutschland erlebt als Folge des temporären Corona-Lockdowns den größten Einbruch der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität in seiner Geschichte. Die Krise hat inzwischen auch den Arbeitsmarkt erreicht: Bereits im April gab es Kurzarbeitsanzeigen für über zehn Millionen Beschäftigte. Die mit einer...

Supply chain scenario planning – Coronavirus synopsis questionsSupply chain resilience, contingencies, and business continuity plansHistoric case study of high dependency on the region and the inappropriate spread of manufacturing load. Contingency planning to address business continuity...

Based on a new concept called “Turning Period”, the goal of this report is to show how we can conduct the prediction for the outlook in the different stages for the battle with outbreak of COVID-19 currently in US, in particular, to identify when each of top 15 states in USA (basically on...

The goal of this study is to show how we establish a general framework for the prediction of the critical so-called “Turning Period” which would play a very important role in assisting better plans for the time frame of emergence plans, in particular for associated looking forward planning...

Economic crises produce rapid and sizable shifts in the demand for social support. Means-tested cash transfers, such as "social assistance" programmes and related minimum-income benefits (MIB) typically function as benefits of last-resort, filling some of the support gaps left by other...

This paper empirically investigates how governments’ COVID-19 relief policies affected firms in 14 post-communist economies under supply chain shortages between May 2020 and January 2022. We constructed a panel dataset with firms that were continuously observed in three rounds of the World...

Aufgrund der stark binnenwirtschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Lockdown-Maßnahmen gegen die Corona-Pandemie sind in weit stärkerem Maße als in der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise vor einem Jahrzehnt auch mittelständische Unternehmen bis hin zu Kleinstbetrieben betroffen. Zudem lei-det der...

Die ersten Corona-Fälle in China sind im Dezember 2019 aufgetaucht. Um die Pandemie einzudämmen, musste die Regierung im Februar weitreichende Maßnahmen ergreifen. Diese Ma-nahmen haben zwar die Pandemie abgeschwächt, aber auch gleichzeitig dramatische Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaft gehabt....

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus in the United States. The WEI is a weekly composite index of real economic activity, with eight of ten series available...

We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the United States and the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business...