There is now a substantial theoretical literature arguing that inflation impedes financial deepening. Furthermore, it … has been hypothesized that the relationship is a nonlinear one, in that there is a threshold level of inflation below … which inflation has a positive effect on financial depth, but above which the effect turns negative. Using a large cross …

We propose measures of financial market stress for forty-six countries and regions across the world. Our measures … wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, hardly anywhere in the world did these March peaks in financial stresses reach those … for the near-term economic outlook across most parts of the world, with the exception of China. A structural Bayesian VAR …