The macroeconomic effects of COVID-19: a critical review

Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs acadèmic: 2020/2021The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on March 11, 2020 that Covid-19 had become a global pandemic. Although more than a year has passed, the world is still fighting to stop this pandemic. The cases, which originated in China, spread rapidly around the world, prompting world governments to put in place the necessary measures to isolate the cases and limit the transmission of the virus as much as possible. However, the adoption of these measures has been very damaging to the world's economies, as trade has been severely affected. With this brief presentation, this paper presents some articles on the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 that I found most interesting. This paper presents the impact of COVID-19 from a more theoretical perspective by means of tables, graphs and policies adopted with the aim of slowing down the recession. We also present a series of articles which, using macroeconomic models, explain the behavior of the virus from different points of view