TY - JOUR

T1 - With a little help from my website. Firm survial and web presence in times of COVID-19 - Evidence from 10 European Countries

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2021/9/17

Y1 - 2021/9/17

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 ten European countries to investigate the link between having a website before the pandemic and firm survival until 2020 .The estimated effect of web presence is statistically highly significant ceteris paribus after controlling for various firm characteristics that are known to be related to survival. Furthermore, the size of this estimated effect can be considered to be large on average.

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 ten European countries to investigate the link between having a website before the pandemic and firm survival until 2020 .The estimated effect of web presence is statistically highly significant ceteris paribus after controlling for various firm characteristics that are known to be related to survival. Furthermore, the size of this estimated effect can be considered to be large on average.

KW - Economics

KW - Web presence

KW - firm survival

KW - COVID-19

KW - World Bank Enterprise Surveys

UR - https://econpapers.repec.org/article/eblecbull/eb-21-00342.htm

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 41

SP - 1898

EP - 1906

JO - Economics Bulletin

JF - Economics Bulletin

SN - 1545-2921

IS - 3

ER -