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Gudmundsson, Sveinn Vidar - 2014

Over the last decade the airline industry has experienced extreme financial adversity. Whilst external low probability but high impact factors have been partially to blame some airlines have done worse than others. Predicting differences in airlines' financial performance is of interest for...

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Gender and Firm Performance around the World : The Roles of Finance, Technology, and Labor

Allison, Lee; Liu, Yu; Murtinu, Samuele; Wei, Zuobao - 2021

Using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data from 2006-2017 on 130,000 firms in 130 countries across the globe, we document that women-led firms tend to underperform men-led firms. The main contribution of this work is to shed light on three mechanisms that help explain the...

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SME policy responses to the 2022/2023 energy crisis : Policy highlights and country experiences

OECD - 2023

aggression against Ukraine from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, "SME policy … price of electricity and natural gas paid by SMEs. The paper discusses three broad policy categories and related approaches … transition. Overall, while emergency measures were initially centred on energy-intensive sectors, a larger number of SMEs was …

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A Global Review of COVID-19 Assistance Program for Small Business

Cheong, J. Q. - 2022

SMEs that was conducted between 2020 and 2022. The review enables us to understand the globally common or underlying … challenges to SMEs due to COVID-19, along with an assessment of government's initiatives that were implemented to alleviate the …

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COVID-19 and Corporate Finance

Pagano, Marco; Zechner, Josef - 2022

We distill evidence about the effects of COVID-19 on companies. Stock price reactions to the shock differed greatly across firms, depending on their resilience to social distancing, financial flexibility, and corporate culture. The same characteristics affected the response of firms' sales,...

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Performance of energy sector companies in time of pandemic COVID-19 : international evidence

Nurlia; Susilowati, Dwi; Dahniyar; Ernayani, Rihfenti; … - In: Research in globalization 7 (2023), pp. 1-11

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the global impact of COVID-19 on energy sector companies, taking into account company characteristics, market distinctions (developed and emerging markets), and sector differentiations (fossil fuels and alternative fuels). By examining financial...

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Small, young, and exporters : new evidence on the determinants of firm growth

Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2016

This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...

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