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The policy response to the Covid crisis in advanced economies was unprecedented, both in terms of scale and diversity of policy instruments. Given the substantial fiscal burden it has generated, it is legitimate to ask how effective this response was. This question turns out to be much harder to answer than casual discussions in the public debate may suggest. The reason for this is that we observe the world as it unfolds before our eyes given the policies in place, but not what it would have been under hypothetical alternative policies. We may always speculate about how many jobs, firms or banks we saved during the Covid crisis, but it ultimately takes a model, and the ability to run counterfactual experiments with it, to get a sense of the benefits associated with specific policies.
期刊介绍:
Ekonomicheskaya Politika is a broad-range economic journal devoted primarily to the study of the economic policy of present-day Russia as well as global economic problems. The subject matters of articles includes macroeconomic, fiscal, monetary, industrial, social, regulation and competition policyand more. The journal also publishes theoretical papers in such areas as political economy, general economic theory, welfare economics, law and economics,and institutional economics.. The character and the scope of economic problems studied in many publications require a multidisciplinary approach, consistent with the editorial policy of the journal. While the thematic scope of articles is generally related to Russia, the aim of editorial policy is to cover politico-economic processes in the modern world and international economic relations, as well. In addition, Ekonomicheskaya Politika publishes Russian translations of classical and significant modern works of foreign economists.