Introduction -- Chapter 1: Back to the future – The return of inflation in the 2020s -- Chapter 2: Fundamentals – A primer on what drives inflation -- Chapter 3: The US – Pandemic recovery and fiscal bazooka -- Chapter 4: Europe – Same, same, but different -- Chapter 5: Asia – This...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted global economies, posing unprecedented business challenges worldwide. This study examines the influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors on corporate value in the context of the pandemic, focusing on China and South Korea....

We consider a dynamic model in which a principal decides what information to release about a product of unknown quality (e.g., a vaccine) to incentivize agents to experiment with the product. Assuming that the agents are long-lived and forward-looking, their incentive to wait and see other...