Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020 - This version: August 2020
We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …