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. …

We study price-setting behavior 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 shortages dominate in the short run. A reported … percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of …

price elasticity of demand for cannabis and implications for likely state excise and sales tax revenues. We use crowdsourced … elasticity of demand for cannabis. We use distances from growing areas to the major markets as a proxy for cost variations. We … obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for cannabis of -0.418, which suggests that legalizing and taxing …