Marcel Fratzscher meets Carolin Roth

In LSB Insights - our virtual talk series - Marcel Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research, talks about how worried he is about the current Corona statistics and whether he expects a new lockdown.

How stable are the banks during the Corona crisis? And what would a second Corona spike mean for the economy?

Presenter Carolin Roth discusses these and other current questions with Marcel Fratzscher.

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