1st Edition

Economic Policy and the Covid-19 Crisis The Macroeconomic Response in the US, Europe and East Asia

282 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 book provides a comprehensive cross-country comparative study on health crisis management at the... Read more

Introduction Part 1: The Experience of the USA 1. Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the United States Part 2: Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Euro-Area and in the EU 2. The Covid-10 Monetary and fiscal Response in the euro-area and the EU 3. The Case of France 4. The Case of Germany 5. The Case of Italy 6. The Case of the UK Part 3: Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Asia 7. The Case of China 8. The Case of Japan 9. Monetary and Fiscal Policy Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic - The case of Korea 10. The Case of Singapore Appendix: Chronicle of the Macroeconomic Responses in the US, Europe, and East Asia

Biography

Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan is Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick Ireland and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany.

Woosik Moon is currently a professor of economics at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University (SNU) Seoul, Korea.

Wook Sohn is Professor and Associate Dean at the KDI school of Public Policy and Management Sejong, Korea.