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Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech
Investigations into the effects of the pandemic on small businesses remain insufficient, and the role of Fintech during a pandemic has rarely been investigated. Using novel firm-level data on registration and various identifications of fixed-effect and difference-in-difference models, we exploit the...
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Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36250105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.02.008 |
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description | Investigations into the effects of the pandemic on small businesses remain insufficient, and the role of Fintech during a pandemic has rarely been investigated. Using novel firm-level data on registration and various identifications of fixed-effect and difference-in-difference models, we exploit the interactive effect of lockdown policies and Fintech on the creation of small businesses. First, both lockdown policies and Fintech have negative impacts on new firm creation in the manufacturing sector. Second, lengthier pandemics induce more severe destruction of firm registrations. Third, an alternative indicator shows that Fintech is not intensively related to labor demand in the manufacturing sector. Policy implications call for higher match efficiency between the manufacturing sector and financial resources to reduce financial misallocation to a large extent. |
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spelling | pubmed-95534732022-10-12 Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech Gao, Jingyi Econ Anal Policy Full Length Article Investigations into the effects of the pandemic on small businesses remain insufficient, and the role of Fintech during a pandemic has rarely been investigated. Using novel firm-level data on registration and various identifications of fixed-effect and difference-in-difference models, we exploit the interactive effect of lockdown policies and Fintech on the creation of small businesses. First, both lockdown policies and Fintech have negative impacts on new firm creation in the manufacturing sector. Second, lengthier pandemics induce more severe destruction of firm registrations. Third, an alternative indicator shows that Fintech is not intensively related to labor demand in the manufacturing sector. Policy implications call for higher match efficiency between the manufacturing sector and financial resources to reduce financial misallocation to a large extent. Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-06 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9553473/ /pubmed/36250105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.02.008 Text en © 2022 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Full Length Article Gao, Jingyi Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title | Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title_full | Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title_fullStr | Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title_full_unstemmed | Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title_short | Has COVID-19 hindered small business activities? The role of Fintech |
title_sort | has covid-19 hindered small business activities? the role of fintech |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36250105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.02.008 |
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