Evaluation of Public Interventions and Impact on Public Finances Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the broad topic of “Evaluation of Public Interventions and Impact on Public Finances due to the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The current pandemic and the various waves of COVID-19 infection call for intervention in every country. These are situations where governments are affecting the lives of millions of people. These include adjustments to public policies, changes in preferences, adjustments to tax systems, and the provision of a large amount of financial support (both to citizens and to the unemployed, as well as to legal entities, entrepreneurs, and other public services providers). Thus, the pandemic has created a completely unprecedented need for state actions and care provision, which in some countries had up until recently been completely unthinkable.

Each state and each government have chosen different tools to help citizens and keep the economy running. For specialists in the field of economics, sociology, finance, and other areas, a major task arises: to analyze the actions of governments and government interventions, to focus on the effectiveness of selected tools, and to define recommendations for the future.

It is also necessary to analyze the future effects of indebtedness, which have increased substantially in many countries. These are impacts that can have both local and national, but also, in principle, international long-term impacts (e.g., the ability of states to repay their debts, the willingness to lend in the future, the impact on financial markets).

Therefore, I call on researchers to provide high-quality studies from different countries and to share their views on this complex global economic situation.

Prof. Dr. Jan Stejskal
Prof. Dr. Marius Sorin Dincă
Guest Editors

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• COVID-19 pandemic
• public finance
• public debts
• public interventions
• public policy
• indebtedness
• International long-term impacts
• effectiveness of public interventions