The COVID-19 pandemic has hit EU member states hard, and will continue to confront the bloc with significant economic challenges. Yet, from a macroeconomic perspective, Europe’s policy response so far ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-28
Although the COVID-19 pandemic feels unprecedented, it is not the first time that exogenous forces have radically disrupted civilian life. The most common parallel is to the American mobilization for ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-24
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest global challenges in generations. Governments and monetary authorities are correctly using every policy lever at their disposal to prevent a grave public-h ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-22
Our cities will not be the same after COVID-19. Nor should they be. In Italy, as elsewhere, the public-health crisis has put us on the defensive. Our hospitals have been inadequate. And our cities, ha ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-17
Declining coronavirus infection rates and plans to begin easing lockdown measures in some parts of the developed world have provided a ray of hope after weeks of unrelenting gloom. But, for many devel ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
Last week, the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, having acknowledged that nobody is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis, agreed to a deal to mitigate its economic fallout. The agreement includes € ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
US President Donald Trump tells us that once COVID-19 is contained and it is safe to go back to work, the economy will be “great again.” Is he right? There is at least one reason to think he is. After ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-15
As the COVID-19 pandemic forces countries to close their borders, their agricultural sectors are confronting major challenges. Even in countries that are unlikely to face food insecurity – such as tho ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-15
Despite a deep recession in 2008 and a slow recovery thereafter, the first two decades of the twenty-first century were generally a time of economic progress in most advanced economies. Real (inflatio ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-09
With each passing day, the 2008 global financial crisis increasingly looks like a mere dry run for today’s economic catastrophe. The short-term collapse in global output now underway already seems lik ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-08
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今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Andrei Kolesnikov2020年04月04日
In recent weeks, the world has been focused on urgently battling the fast-evolving COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization, governments, and central banks have acted rapidly to mitigate the v ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-03
As governments introduce social-distancing rules of varying strictness to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of how long these measures should remain in place will likely spark vigorous debate ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-03
More than 180 countries and territories have confirmed a case of coronavirus, and the number of cases worldwide has reached more than 870,000. Like a massive storm front, the crisis threatens not only ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-02
We live now in the post-virus world. For the United States, passage into this world came suddenly, less than a month ago. The world as we knew it before the arrival of COVID-19 has gone. It is never c ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
If the current coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that our interconnected, globalized economies and societies are highly vulnerable to sudden shocks. The Covid-19 outbreak, and the hor ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
Events like the Covid-19 pandemic, the US housing market crash of 2007-2009, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are often called “black swans”. The term is meant to suggest that no one could ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
The world is at war. The enemy is resilient, ruthless, and unpredictable, with no regard for race, nationality, ideology, or wealth. Already, it has killed more than 26,000 people and infected over 56 ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes their to-do lists at all – is gender. As advocate ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock mark ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
