April 1, 2020/IMFBlog This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus. By Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, Antonio Spilimbergo, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis like no other. It feels like a war, and in many ways it is. People are dying. […]

March 31, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week –    The OVX index measures implied volatility of oil prices and is calculated by using movements in the prices of financial options for WTI. –    The OVX reached 190 on March 20, an all-time high measurement for the index since it began […]

March 31, 2020/IMFBlog This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus. By Tobias Adrian and Aditya Narain Today we face economic upheaval potentially more severe than we witnessed during the global financial crisis. The coronavirus pandemic is a different kind of shock. Never before […]