This article presents a literature review of the 81 articles accepted in the Finance Research
Letters Special Issue titled “COVID-19 and the Economy”. The articles are classified into five …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This …

This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic
exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data collected …

The COVID-19 pandemic has struck businesses across the globe with unprecedented
impacts. The world economy has been hit hard and firms have experienced a myriad of …

Disaster recovery is often unplanned for in the emergency management life cycle. Yet
recovery is the key stage where funds, programs, professional expertise, and volunteer …

COVID-19 causes a pandemic situation that increased the paid or unpaid responsibilities
(home and job) on women and brought significant changes in their lifestyle, resulting in …

Using gender as a theoretical framework, we analyse the dynamics of debt and equity
financing during the COVID-19 pandemic for a cross-country sample of 8,921 private firms …

Business and entrepreneurship are certainly not a monopoly on men. As inhabitants of half
the world, women also have the right to engage in the business world. In line with the ideals …

This paper aims to respond to this research question:“How effective have government
incentives been in preserving firm profitability and growth during the COVID-19 crisis?”. We …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the reallocation of economic
activity across firms and whether this reallocation depends on the competition environment …