Corona-Krise

The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices. 2023 Level: schwer Sellers’ Inflation, Profits and Conflict: Why can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency? Isabelle M. Weber Evan Wasner UMass Amherst This article applies insights from behavioral economics to consider how the general public may make decisions around whether or not to receive a future COVID-19 vaccine in a context of frequent side effects and preexisting mistrust. Three common cognitive biases shown to influence human decision-making under a behavioral economics framework are considered confirmation bias, negativity bias, and optimism bias. 2021 Level: mittel A behavioral economics perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine amid public mistrust. 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Society of Behavioral Medicine Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, member of the Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group, discusses the role of the state in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Level: leicht The Central Role of the State in Responding to COVID-19 Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Jihen Chandoul, a member of the Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group, discusses the impact of import-dependency on African food supply chains since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Level: leicht Recovering Post-Independence Food Sovereignty for the COVID-19 Crisis Jihen Chandoul Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Post-Colonialisms Today researchers Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam discuss the importance of industrial policy during the pandemic to improve domestic capacity for manufacturing essential goods. 2020 Level: leicht Egypt's Past Industrialization Project: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Post-Colonialisms Today researcher Chafik Ben Rouine looks to Tunisia’s post-independence central banking method to provide insight on what progressive monetary policy can look like. 2020 Level: leicht Monetary Policy for Development, During and Beyond Crisis Chafik Ben Rouine Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Wohl nirgendwo werden soziale und ökologische Dimensionen so stark gegeneinander ausgespielt wie in der Wohnungsfrage. Ein Beitrag von Anton Brokow-Loga. 2021 Level: leicht Jenseits des Baubooms Anton Brokow-Loga Economist for Future Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat gezeigt, dass manche wirtschaftliche Zonen wichtiger sind als andere, um Lebensgrundlagen zu sichern und ein gutes Leben zu ermöglichen. An dieser „Alltagsökonomie“ gilt es anzusetzen, um Wirtschaften zukunftsfähig zu machen. Ein Beitrag von Richard Bärnthaler, Andreas Novy, Leonhard Plank und Alexandra Strickner. 2020 Level: leicht Die Alltagsökonomie für ein gutes Leben R. Bärnthaler, A. Novy, L. Plank & A. Strickner Economist for Future Es stimmt hoffnungsvoll zu sehen, welche weitreichenden Maßnahmen die Politik ergreifen kann, wenn eine Situation einmal als Krise identifiziert wurde. Doch in der Klimakrise reicht der politische Wille allein nicht, solange bestehende Diskurse darüber, weshalb und wie investiert und reguliert werden soll, unangetastet bleiben. Ein Beitrag von Birte Strunk. 2020 Level: leicht Postwachstum in Zeiten von Corona Birte Strunk Economist for Future How Covid Shook the World s Economy Deftly weaving finance politics business and the global human experience into one tight narrative a tour de force account of 2020 the year that changed everything from the acclaimed author of Crashed The shocks of 2020 have been great and small disrupting the … 2021 Level: mittel Shutdown Adam Tooze Penguin Publishing Group The world is regularly shaken by crises some are bigger others are smaller in scope Local turmoil military conflicts commodity scarcity bank runs health threats the history of mankind can be written as a history of crises Three major global crises occurred in the last fifty years alone the oil … 2021 Level: leicht Understanding Crises - What to take from here for better policy advice in the future? Dr. Carolina Alves, Prof. Dr. Ishac Diwan Exploring Economics Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is teaching in this online session about the global rules under which the modern (free trade-focused) type of globalization operates and why, under such institutions, international community fails to deal with the climate change and pandemics. 2020 Level: leicht Pandemics, Climate Change, and Global Economics: Where Did We Go Wrong in Globalization? Dani Rodrik Harvard Kennedy School To prevent the coronavirus shock to demand precipitating a long-lasting depression, government needs to become short-term payer of last resort. 2020 Level: leicht Introducing the Payer of Last Resort Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman Social Europe Peter Bofinger argues that the Modern Monetary Theory gives theoretical justification for bold answers to the corona crisis. 2020 Level: leicht Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of Modern Monetary Theory Peter Bofinger Social Europe Exploring Economics Dossier on the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural crisis of globalization. COVID-19 encounters a structural crisis of globalization and the economic system that drives it, with an uncertain outcome. We asked economists worldwide to share with us their analysis of current events, long-term perspectives and political responses. The dossier will be continuously expanded. 2020 Level: leicht The Next Great Recession? Exploring Economics Dossier   Exploring Economics The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is rapidly spreading around the world. The real economy is simultaneously hit by a supply shock and a demand shock by the spread of coronavirus. Such a twin shock is a rare phenomenon in recent economic history. 2020 Level: leicht How to Manage the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Kavaljit Singh Madhyam It is perhaps fitting that the seriousness of the coronavirus threat hit most of the Western world around the Ides of March, the traditional day of reckoning of outstanding debts in Ancient Rome. After all, problems and imbalances have accumulated in the Western capitalist system over four decades, ostensibly since it took the neoliberal road out of the 1970s crisis and kept going along it, heedless of the crises and problems it led to. 2020 Level: leicht The Unexpected Reckoning: Coronavirus and Capitalism Radhika Desai Canadian Dimesion How long the COVID-19 crisis will last, and what its immediate economic costs will be, is anyone's guess. But even if the pandemic's economic impact is contained, it may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in many of the Asian emerging and developing economies on the front lines of the outbreak. 2020 Level: leicht The COVID-19 Debt Deluge Jayati Ghosh Project Syndicate Whether a black swan or a scapegoat, Covid-19 is an extraordinary event. Declared by the WHO as a pandemic, Covid-19 has given birth to the concept of the economic “sudden stop.” We need extraordinary measures to contain it. 2020 Level: leicht Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: Covid-19 as the Last Straw T Sabri Öncu Counterpunch, Prime This is an overview of (possibly transformative) proposals to address the economic consequences of the corona crisis 2020 Level: leicht Overview of proposals to combat the economic consequences of the Corona crisis Hannes Böhm, Anne Löscher & Jorim Gerrard Exploring Economics With the onset of an economic crisis that has been universally acknowledged since the end of March, two main questions arise: To what extent is the corona pandemic the starting point (or even the cause) of this crisis? And secondly: can the aid programmes that have been adopted prevent a deep and prolonged recession? 2020 Level: leicht Economic crisis only because of the Corona pandemic? Jakob Schäfer Exploring Economics Mit dem seit Ende März allseits konstatierten Beginn einer Wirtschaftskrise stellen sich vorrangig zwei Fragen: Inwieweit ist die Corona-Pandemie der Ausgangspunkt (oder gar die Ursache) dieser Krise? Und zweitens: Kann mit den beschlossenen Hilfsprogrammen eine tiefgreifende, langanhaltende Rezession verhindert werden? 2020 Level: leicht Wirtschaftskrise nur wegen Corona-Pandemie? Jakob Schäfer Exploring Economics For some days, global financial markets are in turmoil. Central banks and governments are dealing with the unfolding crisis on a daily basis with seemingly u... 2020 Level: leicht Replay of the financial crisis of 2008? What is different today, and what to expect? Adam Tooze & Gerhard Schick Finanzwende In this Blog Post on developmenteconomics org Christina C Laskaridis PhD candidate in Economics at SOAS elaborates on the economic fallout of the corona pandemic and especially its impact on the Global South The author focuses in particular on the issue of debt moratoria and debt restructuring and the measures … 2020 Level: leicht Debt Moratoria in the Global South in the Age of Coronavirus Christina C. Laskaridis developingeconomics.org