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29 April 2021

The Economic Costs of the Coronavirus Shutdown for Germany: A Scenario Calculation

Sun, 03/29/2020 - 12:00
- This EconPol policy brief, using figures from the ifo Institute, calculates potential costs of coronavirus to the German economy of up to 729 billion, with up to 1.8 million jobs cut and six million workers affected by lower hours - however it stresses that the aim of any action must be to shorten the partial shutdown of the economy without compromising the fight against the epidemic, with strategies that combine a resumption of production with further containment of the epidemic.