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 …

We examine the role of demand composition in explaining the trade collapse and recovery during the ongoing covid-19 … crisis. We apply an import-intensity-adjusted measure of demand to examine import trends in 40 advanced and emerging … 2008-2009. As during the global financial crisis, we find that import-intensity-adjusted demand is a key factor …

2021, finding that the model performs well. We then evaluate the relative importance of demand- and supply-side factors in … Reissl et al. (2021) by incorporating the effects of changes in mobility on the level and composition of consumption demand … determining our simulation results. During the national lockdown of spring 2020 the impacts of supply-side (labor) shocks can …