The coronavirus shock: a story of another global crisis foretold - what policymakers should be doing about it UNCTAD (2020-03-17)
A year of living dangerously The coronavirus crisis is first and foremost a public health threat, but it is also, and increasingly, an economic threat. The so-called “Covid-19” shock will trigger a recession in some cou .. more | Responding to COVID-19: Six Things Banks Should Do To Minimize Impact To The Economy Oliver Wyman (2020-03-17)
As the number of cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) increases, the focus of companies must be on limiting the direct impact on employees and customers while also supporting efforts to limit the spread of the virus. The .. more | Real-Time Weakness of the Global Economy: A First Assessment of the Coronavirus Crisis CEPR (2020-03-17)
We propose an empirical framework to measure the degree of weakness of the global economy in real-time. It relies on nonlinear factor models designed to infer recessionary episodes of heterogeneous deepness, and fitted t .. more |
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