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 …

COVID-19 pandemic in the US. We use loan-level microdata for all PPP loans and high-frequency administrative employment data … why some funds initially flowed to regions that were less adversely affected by the pandemic. Second, we exploit regional …

first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using nationally …

of revenue loss leads to a 1.6 cent decline in the consumption of the owner at this early stage of the pandemic. This … the transfer programs begin; (3) pandemic induced declines in the ability to spend on consumption – spending on travel …

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm …-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage …

understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April … businesses that had stopped operating due to the pandemic. The survey asks 136 questions covering topics such as changes in … responsibilities. We characterize the adjustments implemented to survive the pandemic and explore the key challenges to continue …