Monetary policy responses to COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic of the corona virus caused a shock of global interaction that hit the global economy hard, taking by surprise both the authorities and the scientists, who had to intervenein order to mitigate the consequences in terms of all the lessons previously offered by history. Tocontrol the spread of the virus, governments around the world have used and still use social distancing. This inevitably suppressed large-scale economic activity. The massive stalemate in publiclife has hit most countries around the world, whose economies have been forced to slow down.