Tag: coronavirus

Perché l’attuale crisi sarà costosa, duratura, difficile da tenere sotto controllo. Interpretazione di uno shock di molteplice natura, globale e che colpisce ripetutamente

20 03 28

Daniele Langiu   daniele.langiu@gmail.com

Fabio Sdogati   fabio.sdogati@mip.polimi.it

In questo paper presentiamo un’interpretazione, o ‘un modello’, dell’attuale crisi. Speriamo di far luce sui meccanismi endogeni che stanno rendendo costosa la crisi sia in termini umanitari che economici, probabilmente di più lunga durata di quanto molti ancora immaginino, o sperano, e difficili da controllare in assenza di interventi estremi dalle autorità fiscali e monetarie di tutto il mondo rispetto a quelli storici, durante i periodi di pace. La nostra domanda è: cosa si può dire del percorso post-shock della crisi, dallo shock alla ripresa?

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Why the current crisis will be costly, long lasting, difficult to bring under control. Interpreting a multi-nature, multi-country, multi-hits shock

20 03 28

Daniele Langiu   daniele.langiu@gmail.com

Fabio Sdogati   fabio.sdogati@mip.polimi.it

 

In this paper we submit an interpretation, or ‘a model’, of the current crisis. We hope to shed some light on the endogenous mechanisms that are making the crisis costly both in humanitarian and economic terms, probably longer-lasting than many still imagine, or hope, and difficult to control in the absence of extreme intervention, as compared to historical, peace-time standards, by fiscal and monetary authorities the world over. Our question is: what can be said about the post-shock path of the crisis, from shock to recovery?

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Covid-19: Now More Than Ever, European Union

20 03 22

Daniele Langiu          daniele.langiu@gmail.com

Fabio Sdogati             sdogati@mip.polimi.it

[This is the English Version of our paper in Italian posted yesterday, March 21st]

Time passes at a horrible speed, in the conditions in which we live. While up to three weeks ago we had very little literature on the relationship between the pandemic and the outlook for economic activity, and no estimates for the size of the possible effects, now articles, forecasts, interviews, reports multiply by the hour, and it has become difficult to follow properly what it is written, or said. And the topic is always, or almost, that of economic forecasts.

In a piece of March 4, one of us wrote that, in the absence of data and reliable forecasts, it would be better to deal with the classification of the types of profile of the reaction of economic activity to the virus shock, and then start reasoning to sift through different hypotheses. At that time, reasons were advanced in support of a pessimistic view of the evolution of the crisis. Today we discuss the research conducted, or the positions expressed, by some economists who offer support for our hypothesis.

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