Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Maksim Belitski (), Christina Guenther (), Alexander Kritikos and Roy Thurik
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Maksim Belitski: University of Reading
Christina Guenther: WHU Vallendar

No 14630, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic economic research.

Keywords: COVID-19; entrepreneurs; small businesses; economic effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J38 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2021-08
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Published - published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609

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