Die Jahre seit 2008 sind durch drei Krisen gekennzeichnet: Krisen auf dem Finanzmarkt, in der realen Wirtschaft und in einigen Staatshaushalten. Jede Krise wurde mit einem Programm im mehrstelligen Milliarden-Euro-Bereich bekämpft. Aber der Problemgehalt variiert zwischen den drei Programmen...

We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...

We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...

We nowcast the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related lock-down measures in the UK and then analyse the distributional and budgetary effects of the estimated individual income shocks, distinguishing between the effects of automatic stabilisers and those of the emergency policy...