Abstract
This issue of the International Journal of Central Banking includes two of the papers presented at the conference entitled “The Macroeconomic Consequences of COVID-19” hosted by the European Central Bank on August 9–10, 2021. The conference was co-organized with Bank of Korea and the European Central Bank. The two papers, chosen using the same rigorous standards applied to all International Journal of Central Banking content, are “Does Policy Communication during COVID Work?” by Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Michael Weber; and “Monetary Policy and COVID-19” by Michal Brzoza-Brzezina, Marcin Kolasa, and Krzysztof Makarski. The program committee for the conference was Klaus Adam, Boragan Aruoba, Òscar Jordà, Sharon Kozicki, Keith Kuester, and Luc Laeven.