Hong, Gee Hee; Ito, Arata; Saito, Yukiko Umeno; Anh Thi … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious threat to the survival of Japanese firms, highlighting the importance of understanding how and why firms exit. In this paper, we use a rich firm-level dataset of Japanese firms to document how firm exit patterns have evolved between 2007 and 2017. Firm...