Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. World Trade Development -- Chapter 3. Development of the World Trade in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemics -- Chapter 4. Development of International Trade between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation -- Chapter 5. Methodology -- Chapter 6. Data...

Asian emerging market economies have recovered relatively well from the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Emerging Asia has been quite successful in maintaining both macroeconomic and financial stability in a turbulent global environment. Policy frameworks and governance structures have been adapted...

We analyze the evolution and drivers of inflation during the pandemic and the likely trajectory of inflation in the near-term using an event study of inflation around global recessions and a factor-augmented vector auto-regression (FAVAR) model. We report three main results. First, the decline...