We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional governments in Italy than in Spain. Upon documenting national and regional … autonomy, and fostering experimentation and local solutions explains the gap between Italy and Spain in the first wave of the …

in Canada within a VAR framework. The positive tax multipliers documented in the previous literature are found only for …

-analysis techniques, we summarise the results for five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) that use … without making strong assumptions. Results from another three countries (Canada, Chile and the United States) corroborate the …

kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …