COVID-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: evaluation and outlook

Abstract We analyse small businesses’ recourse to public support measures during the COVID-19 crisis using a survey of 1011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland. We find that “objective” measures of lockdown affectedness and economic structure explain fairly well how busine...

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Main Authors: Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive, Tobias Lehmann, Michael Siegenthaler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-10-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-020-00060-y