Table 2.
Number of days with policy action announcement.
| Country code | BE | CH | DE | DK | ES | EU | FI | FR | GB | IT | NL | NO | SE | BR | CA | MX | US | CN | HK | IN | JP | KR | SG | AU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A: Period from 2020-01-01 to 2020-07-31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Account guarantees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Asset purchases | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Credit facilities | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 0 |
| Credit guarantees | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Emergency liquidity | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Fiscal policy | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiscal stimulus | 21 | 1 | 25 | 21 | 24 | 32 | 25 | 23 | 14 | 27 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Interest rate change | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Loan guarantees | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Macroprudential policy | 31 | 5 | 24 | 22 | 26 | 31 | 20 | 28 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 20 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 26 | 8 | 13 |
| Market liquidity | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Monetary policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swap lines | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Actions (total days) | 43 | 8 | 41 | 38 | 46 | 52 | 39 | 43 | 33 | 46 | 40 | 39 | 41 | 38 | 21 | 13 | 41 | 34 | 27 | 25 | 15 | 40 | 15 | 18 |
| Panel B: Period from 2020-08-01 to 2021-07-31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiscal stimulus | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Macroprudential policy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Actions (total days) | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 40 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 |
Note: The table indicates the number of days with at least action divided by 13 categories. The last row shows the total number of days with any action. It is common that during the same day more than one action were announced.