When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorBelghitar, Yacine
dc.contributor.authorMoro, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorRadić, Nemanja
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-20T13:58:59Z
dc.date.available2021-05-20T13:58:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-18
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the impact of COVID-19 on 42,401 UK SMEs and how government intervention affects their capability to survive the pandemic. The results show that, without governmental mitigation schemes, 59% of UK SMEs report negative earnings and that their residual life is reduced from 164 to 139 days. The analysis shows that government support scheme reduces the number of SMEs with negative earnings to 49% and allows extending the residual life for SMEs with negative earnings to 194 days. In addition, the support scheme reduces the number of jobs at risk in our sample by around 20%. However, our results suggest that weaker firms benefit more than strong ones. Besides, industries that are worst hit by COVID-19 are not those that benefit most from the government support scheme. We ascribe this result to the fact that the schemes do not discriminate between those firms that deserve support and those that do not deserve it.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationMoro A, Belghitar Y, Radic N. (2022) When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19. Small Business Economics, Volume 58, Issue 2, February 2022, pp. 943–961en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0921-898X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00510-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16700
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectGovernment interventionen_UK
dc.subjectEconomic crisisen_UK
dc.subjectCash Small firmsen_UK
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_UK
dc.titleWhen the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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