Fintech startups symbolize a radical transformation in the financial industry that provides technology-based financial services. These newly formed business organizations use digital technologies such as computers, the internet, mobile, and data to innovate and facilitate, thus creating tough...

The COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented consequences on businesses and, in particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to empirically study the impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis on Swiss SMEs two years after the onset of the pandemic. Using a sample of 149 SMEs...

This paper uses data on private firms in 24 developing countries to show that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with greater obstacles in accessing an educated workforce have lower performance than other firms. The findings are robust to the comprehensive inclusion of relevant control...