TY - UNPB

T1 - Online Channels Sales Premia in Times of COVID-19: First Evidence from Germany

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Presence on the web tends to be important for firms. Empirical studies show that firms with a better performance along various dimensions, and firms that are more internationally active, tend to have a website. Furthermore, a website helped firms to survive in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. An open question that is not discussed in this literature is how the use of online channels for sales is related to various dimensions of firm performance. This note contributes to the literature by using a unique recently released set of firm level data from Germany to investigate for the first time the links between online channels sales and firm characteristics.

AB - Presence on the web tends to be important for firms. Empirical studies show that firms with a better performance along various dimensions, and firms that are more internationally active, tend to have a website. Furthermore, a website helped firms to survive in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. An open question that is not discussed in this literature is how the use of online channels for sales is related to various dimensions of firm performance. This note contributes to the literature by using a unique recently released set of firm level data from Germany to investigate for the first time the links between online channels sales and firm characteristics.

KW - Economics

KW - Online channels sales

KW - firm performance

KW - COVID-19

KW - Germany 2021 Enterprise Survey Data Set

UR - https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschungseinrichtungen/ifvwl/WorkingPapers/lue/pdf/wp_415_Upload.pdf

M3 - Working papers

T3 - University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - Online Channels Sales Premia in Times of COVID-19: First Evidence from Germany

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre - Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -