Hurley, James; Karmakar, Sudipto; Markoska, Elena; … - 2021
The Covid-19 crisis led to a sharp drop in economic activity in the UK, which hit small and medium enterprises (SMEs) harder than larger businesses. We introduce a novel loan level dataset for 2 million UK SMEs (~5 billion data points) to document a few important facts during Covid-19: (1) The...