Questions tagged [covid-19-crisis]
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Will US Treasury and Federal Reserve's expansionary policies in 2020 crowd out?
Scott Minerd, CIO of Guggenheim Investments contends
What could go wrong with my outlook? We are already in uncharted territory and another black swan might emerge in the midst of a very fragile ...
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Federal Reserve Leveraging of COVID-19 Fund
Reading an article in The New York Times about the COVID-19 stimulus bill, I stumbled on this detail
the Fed can take a limited amount of funds and deploy them widely: The central bank only needs ...
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Why is the Australian Government financing the stimulus via debt rather than the RBA?
The Australian Government is engaging in quantitative easing for the first time. The RBA is creating money that is being used to buy bonds on the secondary market so that there is enough liquidity for ...
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How much of new debt in Italy is due covid?
The debt to GDP of Italy ballooned in 2021 to 158.5% (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-budget-debt-idUSKBN29L0PP). That is almost 20% increase from 2019. I wonder how much of that is just ...
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Are there any estimates for what percentage of the jobs lost this spring are “permanent” at least for the rest of the year?
In a "view from the helicopter" video by The Economist on the aftereffects of Covid-19, one of the editors says that it's very unlikely we'll see a return to normal this year e.g. in the restaurant ...
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How will Coronavirus affect Social Security solvency?
The Coronavirus (known by younger millennials as the "Boomer Plague") is estimated to have a cost of life between 100,000 - 240,000 Americans. According to the CDC
approximately 80% of deaths ...
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Effects on Early International Travel Ban and Economy
Can't find articles regarding on this. Had the country set up an early international travel ban to avoid this Covid-19 pandemic, can that country survive thru local businesses after 4-6 months or more ...
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Helicopter Money in the time of Covid-19
In this voxEU article by Jordi Galí, he says the following:
In the current context, the central bank could credit the government's account (or governments, in the case of the ECB) for the amount of ...
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Soft Question: Econometric model recommendation - covid situation and supermarket sales
I am interested in modelling the impact of the current covid pandemic on supermarket sales (in a specific country in Europe) as part of my bachelor's thesis (next year), however, I am having a hard ...
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How can government mitigate the long-term effects of current shut downs?
I’m not well versed in economics by any stretch of the imagination. But I am confused with certain measures taken thus far by the government.
There is currently a temporary shutdown of vast sectors ...
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What are the economic arguments against (a) variolation (analogue) as a solution for Covid-19?
It has been suggested in some parts of the (usually right-wing) press that a solution to Covid-19, especially in economics terms, is to expose the young to the virus sooner, e.g.:
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Why doesn't the Federal government just let the stock market crash?
In a normal financial crisis the government tries to maintain the stock market prices to prevent a spike in unemployment as companies collapse and run layoffs. But given that we're in the midst on a ...
