Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more … partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES). In this paper we first describe this survey and also examine how …

coronavirus rising sharply and containment measures tightened again in many countries. Industrial production and world trade have … next, with a particularly strong improvement in the outlook for the United States. World trade in goods is expected to grow … horizon world trade will thus be even higher than expected before the crisis. …