Purchasing Time: The First 100 Days of German COVID-19 Policy

Michael W. Müller () and Annalisa Tassi ()
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Michael W. Müller: University of Mannheim
Annalisa Tassi: FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

A chapter in The First 100 Days of Covid-19, 2023, pp 173-205 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter analyzes the first 100 days of German COVID-19 policy focusing on the legal and economic responses to the immediate outbreak of the Coronavirus and the accompanying public debate. While there have been demanding measures against the spread of the virus from the beginning on, first studies suggest a high level of compliance with such measures. At the same time, significant material support was provided in the form of financial relief for businesses and individuals. With the crisis further progressing, however, it has been criticized that the relief measures were neither able to fairly distribute the burdens of the pandemic nor could they be upheld for long without endangering public finances. All this suggests that Germany, in the early days of the pandemic, was able to purchase time without, however, designing a sustainable framework for intervention and burden-sharing.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6325-4_7

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