There are many covid-19 related uncertainties, despite the countries’ effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 and embrace solutions against this world pandemic. The current paper seeks to identify challenges imposed by the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 pandemic and its potential...

Asymmetries in the Vietnamese lending central bank's policy-related rate spread were documented. Empirical results revealed that the spread adjusts to the threshold faster when the central bank's policy-related rates decrease relative to the lending rates than when the central bank's...