decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …

. Most firms revise downward their expectations for sales, orders, employment, and investment, while prices are expected to … the effects on factor demand and sales of the COVID-19 generated shocks. Credit-constrained firms also expect to charge …

Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all …

.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this conclusion was flawed, and based on improved methods and using data for the … data, we examine evidence for the overall economy, as well as for different sectors. The results indicate that small firms …

. More information including estimates of recent trends in business ownership and performance (e.g. survival rates, sales …Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly …, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). …

sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial services; the impacts of business training; barriers to hiring …; and the distinction between self-employment by necessity and self-employment as a calling. The article devotes special …

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of …

. More information including estimates of recent trends in business ownership and performance (e.g. survival rates, sales …Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly …, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). …

.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this conclusion was flawed, and based on improved methods and using data for the … data, we examine evidence for the overall economy, as well as for different sectors. The results indicate that small firms …