Prompted by the shakeup of Covid-19 on financial markets, scholars have begun to explore the corporate traits that can make firms more resilient to a pandemic. In this paper, we explore how the involvement of families in ownership and governance positions influences the financial performance of...

A growing literature is devoted to understand how firms react to unforeseen events. Contributing to this research, we investigate how the presence of families in corporate ownership and governance affected firm performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from Italy, the first western...