Eckert, Florian; Mikosch, Heiner - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25
This paper examines the incidence of firm bankruptcies and start-ups in Switzerland based on unique register data. We propose to assess the frequency of bankruptcies over time using the concept of excess mortality. During the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 and the first half of 2021, bankruptcy rates...
