This book provides a research-based understanding of the COVID-19 crisis and its subsequent impact on businesses, consumers, banks, and financial markets, along with information on the effectiveness of government and policymaker reactions. The book's authors put the COVID-19 economic crisis in context by comparing it to the Crash of 1929 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009, thus illustrating how crises in financial markets, and in banking, differ.