COVID-19 is the communicable disease caused by the most recently discovered Corona Virus.2019 to at present World maximum countries are expiring COVID-19 and wide spread of the virus with number of variants already carried off a considerable amount of lives. All the affected countries have been...

Most Sri Lankan organizations, especially in the fields of tourism, education and apparel, Industries, are currently facing major difficulties in terms of economy, owing to the prevailing COVID-19 situation. The virus situation which follows the Easter attack that occurred in 2019, has...

It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some countries and industries were showing...

Tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed the number of international tourist arrivals declined by 84 per cent between march and December 2020 compared with the previous year, according to data observed by UNWTO. Based on a range of tourist arrivals...

The global financial crisis has now spread across multiple countries and sectors, affecting both financial and real spheres in the advanced as well as the developing economies. This has been caused by policies based on "rational expectation" models that advocate deregulated finance, with...

The global financial crisis has now spread across multiple countries and sectors, affecting both financial and real spheres in the advanced as well as the developing economies. This has been caused by policies based on “rational expectation” models that advocate deregulated finance, with...

We provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the economic impact of pandemics and identify the transmission channels at play. The primary channel comes from the supply side, as pandemics reduce both the quantity and the quality of labour. They can also lead to a destruc-tion of...

In this working paper, I investigate what I see as the major themes for the debate that we need to have to be prepared for the next pandemic. These themes are developed against the background of a more thorough investigation in my monograph Pandemic Economics (van Bergeijk 2021) about the...

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...

This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic...