"This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example. The...

The recession in India and the UK peaked in 2017 due to the implications of new policy initiatives. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 intensified the crisis, causing a drastic decline in aggregate demand and output. India and the UK have resorted to monetary and...

We investigate how the interaction of the Brexit and COVID waves of the Bank of England’s quantitative easing with the leverage ratio capital requirements or government COVID lending support schemes affected bank business lending. We find that the former QE programme was particularly...

In front of the first signals of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the Bank of England has immediately intervened trying to limit the negative impact of the measures adopted by the Government to reduce the spread of the virus Accordingly, the British monetary authority has...

What impact will digital apps and digital technologies play in facilitating social distancing measures in the coming months? Given the ongoing situation at hand, is a situation likely to arise whereby fiscal incentives and objectives are prioritized above inflation targets, and more precisely,...