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Evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in Asia
Igarashi, Takiko; Takeda, Asami; Hoa Thi Truong; … - 2021
Since the first quarter of 2020, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries have faced …, whether the digitalization of MSMEs could alleviate it, and whether government support has reached MSMEs. This paper aimed to … than men-led but otherwise similar enterprises. Fourth, the digitalization intensity had a nonlinear relationship with …
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The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on micro, small, and medium enterprises in Asia and their digitalization responses
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Takeda, Asami; Yoshida, Susumu; Hoa … - 2021
to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers because smaller firms are more vulnerable to negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500477
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The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Asia and Their Digitalization Responses
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Takeda, Asami; Yoshida, Susumu; … - 2021
to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers because smaller firms are more vulnerable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214215
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Does past Corporate Social Performance Matter in a Crisis? Layoffs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fatmy, Veda - 2023
In this paper, I examine the effects of a firm’s prior reputation in enforcing good CSR practices on its involuntary turnover behavior during the first year of the COVID ’19 pandemic. Specifically, using difference-in-difference analysis on 3,011 publicly traded US firms over the period...
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
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Digitalization and resilience : data assets and firm productivity growth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Koski, Heli; Fornaro, Paolo - 2024
This study investigates the impact of firm-level investments in data assets on productivity growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing matched employer-employee data of 13,609 Finnish firms for 2015-2020. Our estimation results indicate that firms with greater pre-pandemic investments in...
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The economic effects of private equity buyouts
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Handley, Kyle; … - 2021
We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts, depending on buyout type and external conditions....
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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2021
Drawing on data from the firm-level Survey of Business Uncertainty, we present three pieces of evidence that COVID-19 is a persistent reallocation shock. First, rates of excess job and sales reallocation over 24-month periods have risen sharply since the pandemic struck, especially for sales. We...
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Firms’ Expectations on Access to Finance at the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ferrando, Annalisa - 2020
This paper provides novel information on the propagation of the pandemic-induced real shock to firms' financial conditions. It uses firm-level survey data from end February to early April 2020 for a large sample of euro area SMEs and large firms. Firms' expectations on the availability of credit...
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