EU monetary and fiscal policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis
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چکیده
The COVID-19, or, the coronavirus crisis represents an unprecedented global threat in recent history that, as symmetric external shock, affects social and economic dynamics of different countries regions on both macro micro levels. aim paper is to provide a critical overview policy responses ongoing EU and, particular, eurozone. tends answer question whether proposed monetary fiscal actions feasible risk mitigating tools for or are there some viable that omitted?
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ekonomika preduze?a
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2406-1239', '0353-443X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/ekopre2106333j