In order to fight the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, monetary and fiscal policy announced a large variety of support packages which are often unprecedented in size. In this paper, we provide an empirical analysis of the responses of European financial markets to these policy...

This paper empirically studies the role of financial development in the fiscal response function by distinguishing high and low financial development regimes based on a data driven selection mechanism and investigating two groups of economies, European Union (EU) members and OECD countries from...