scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the … "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic …

The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …

the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small … this trend in the third quarter of 2020.The increase in closures rates in the first two quarters of the pandemic was …

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to … the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are …

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity … affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference …, those with the worst outbreaks, were slow to recover; twelve weeks after reopening, mobility had not returned to the pre-pandemic …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread …

What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of …

pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …