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Pandemic chronicles 2020-2021
Kroniki pandemii to zbi贸r 27 stanowisk opublikowanych przez interdyscyplinarny Zesp贸艂 doradczy ds. COVID-19 przy Prezesie Polskiej Akademii Nauk, dzia艂aj膮cy od lipca 2020 roku. Jest to ju偶 drugie po Zrozumie膰 COVID-19 obszerniejsze opracowanie naszego zespo艂u porz膮dkuj膮ce wiadomo艣ci dotycz膮ce wirusa SARS-CoV-2 i powodowanej przez niego choroby COVID-19. Wydane we wrze艣niu 2020 roku Zrozumie膰 COVID-19 mia艂o na celu podsumowanie przebiegu pierwszych miesi臋cy pandemii i przygotowanie spo艂ecze艅stwa w Polsce do ci臋偶kiego sezonu jesienno-zimowego 2020/2021. Niniejsze opracowanie powstaje po dw贸ch latach trwania pandemii, kt贸ra rozpocz臋艂a si臋 w Wuhan w grudniu 2019 roku. Mamy nadziej臋, 偶e dzi臋ki na bie偶膮co tworzonym tekstom raportuj膮cym przebieg pandemii i dylematy, przed kt贸rymi stawa艂o spo艂ecze艅stwo, w przypadku kolejnych podobnych wyzwa艅 skorzystamy z tych trudnych i wa偶nych do艣wiadcze艅
Poland鈥檚 economy in the pandemic
The Polish economy has largely managed to avoid the pandemic-induced troubles experienced in Western Europe. But as Pawe艂 Bukowski (LSE) and Wojtek Paczos (Cardiff University) argue, contrary to government claims of able stewardship, what has got the country through relatively unscathed is a combination of good fortune, making GDP a priority over health and restrictions centred more on personal freedoms than economic freedoms
We need more progressive taxation, and a wealth tax, to pay for the Covid-19 rescue packages
The cost of COVID-19 rescue packages will likely be partly financed by increased inflation, which will disproportionally affect less-affluent people and workers, including frontline NHS staff. Pawe艂 Bukowski (LSE) and Wojciech Paczos (Cardiff University) argue that to spread that burden more equitably, governments should consider an increase in progressivity of income taxes and an introduction of a temporary wealth tax
Foreign banks and The bank lending channel
We provide new evidence on the bank lending channel of monetary policy using bank-level data of 440 banks from eleven CEE transition economies between 1998 and 2012. Our findings are: i) banks adjust their loans to changes in host country's monetary policy, ii) foreign-owned banks are less responsive to monetary policy of a host country than domestic-owned banks in both normal and crisis times, iii) foreign parent bank characteristics are irrelevant for the bank lending channel. We propose market segmentation hypothesis that can account for those facts better than the alternative, the internal market hypothesis. Foreign banks have a competitive advantage so that their loan portfolio adjusts less to changes in monetary policy. As a consequence, an increase in foreign penetration of the banking sector does not render monetary policy less effective