Business Dept., Finance Chair, 365074Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Adana, Turkey & Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow, Essen, Germany.
Eval Rev. 2022 Aug;46(4):416-437. doi: 10.1177/0193841X221100361. Epub 2022 May 16.
The present study examines the effect of fiscal policies on firm survival for small-and-medium-sized enterprises in the cross-country level firm-level data.
A propensity score matching analysis is utilised for the post-COVID-19 period firms by using the World Bank Enterprise Follow-up Surveys for the pandemic period. Small-and-medium-sized enterprises are essential to the economy; firm failures can increase in a pandemic.
The obtained findings show that the effect of fiscal policies has an essential effect on small-and-medium-sized enterprises survival in the COVID-19 pandemic period by using a cross-country heterogenous firm-level sample.
In this context, the present study shed new light on the link between COVID-19-related fiscal policies and small-and-medium-sized firm survival in developing countries.
本研究通过跨国层面的企业层面数据，考察财政政策对中小企业生存的影响。
利用世界银行在疫情期间进行的企业后续调查，对新冠疫情后的企业采用倾向得分匹配分析。中小企业对经济至关重要；在大流行病期间，企业倒闭的情况可能会增加。
利用跨国异质企业层面样本，研究结果表明，财政政策对新冠疫情期间中小企业的生存具有重要影响。
在这种情况下，本研究为新冠疫情相关财政政策与发展中国家中小企业生存之间的联系提供了新的视角。
