The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major global health crisis, the onset of which, and containment policies for, have … also led to a global economic crisis. The effects of the pandemic on the economies of various countries depended on their … the economy. In India, we find that the pandemic and ensuing lockdown policy led to various supply chain disruptions and …

The main problem facing policymakers during the corona virus pandemic is how to mitigate its humanitarian and economic … the current pandemic. We also discuss a range of fiscal measures that can be adopted with the aim of achieving the …

We review early evidence on how household consumption behavior has evolved over the pandemic and how different groups … findings and challenges to the design of stimulus policies from the pandemic. In conclusion, we identify several open issues …

This paper explores whether and why the pandemic differentially altered women and men's consumption behavior. After the … frequently reported "not missing" various items as the primary reason for spending less than pre-pandemic. …

lockdown and transfer payments in times of a pandemic. In our model, the effectiveness of a lockdown in mitigating the pandemic …, giving rise to an excruciating trade-off between saving lives from the pandemic and from deprivation. Lump-sum transfers help … increases the aggregate death burden during the pandemic. We finally discuss distributional consequences and the political …

I study the effects of the 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak in the United States and subsequent fiscal policy response in a … nonlinear DSGE model. The pandemic is a shock to the utility of contact-intensive services that propagates to other sectors via …