TY - JOUR

T1 - Exports and Firm Survival in Times of COVID-19 - Evidence from Eight European Countries

AU - Wagner, Joachim

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 the author(s), published by De Gruyter.

PY - 2024/4/1

Y1 - 2024/4/1

N2 - This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in eight European countries to investigate the link between exporting before the pandemic and firm survival until 2020. The estimated effect of exports is positive and statistically significant ceteris paribus after controlling for various firm characteristics that are known to be related to firm survival. Furthermore, the size of this estimated effect can be considered to be large on average. Exporting helped firms to survive.

AB - This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in eight European countries to investigate the link between exporting before the pandemic and firm survival until 2020. The estimated effect of exports is positive and statistically significant ceteris paribus after controlling for various firm characteristics that are known to be related to firm survival. Furthermore, the size of this estimated effect can be considered to be large on average. Exporting helped firms to survive.

KW - COVID-19

KW - exports

KW - firm survival

KW - robit regression

KW - World Bank Enterprise surveys

KW - Economics

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U2 - 10.1515/roe-2023-0095

DO - 10.1515/roe-2023-0095

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85190349695

VL - 75

SP - 63

EP - 70

JO - Review of Economics

JF - Review of Economics

SN - 0948-5139

IS - 1

ER -