This report discusses the economic impact of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis across industries, and countries. It also provides estimates of the potential global economic costs of COVID-19, and the GDP growth of different countries. The current draft includes estimates for 30 countries, under...

Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...

The full-scale invasion and the subsequent introduction of Martial Law in Ukraine imposed substantial limitations on data gathering and processing by state statistical agencies. The lack of timely data severely restricts policy making and makes it difficult to assess the scale and speed of...

Die jüngste Finanzkrise und die darauf folgende Staatsschuldenkrise hat sowohl wirtschaftlich als auch gesellschaftlich tiefgreifende Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei wurden auch sehr deutliche Lücken in der Forschung offenbar. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, aufbauend auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand...