COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy is accompanied by an epochal economic crisis. One wonders what the real extent of the economic crisis is, what its consequences in the medium and long term, what the governmental interventions mean and how effective economic policies, implemented and announced, are....

This research is willing to evaluate the behavior and characteristics of a worldwide pandemic economic crisis (COVID-19) and a global financial crisis in the year 2008. We propose a new indicator to compare these two types of crises. The new indicator is entitled “The economic leakage Index...

The outbreak of COVID-19 is generating shock waves to financial markets and the real economy all over the world and the depth of the recession coming ahead depends on policy response. This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 (measured by the number of new cases and deaths) and brent oil...

The long-lasting, widespread COVID-19 pandemic has imposed huge challenges on public health as well as economic recovery. Governments must take an active role in designing and enforcing economic policies to address various problems that pure market forces cannot, such as externalities and the...

"This book offers an assessment of the different monetary and fiscal policy responses that have been implemented by national governments in major European and Asian countries faced with the Covid-19 crisis since 2020; it also deals with the case of the US experience as a benchmarking example. The...