ArticleChina economic review2022
Riding out the COVID-19 storm: How government policies affect SMEs in China.
Article in China economic review, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Policy instruments facilitate China's COVID-19 work resumption.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Can SMEs benefit equally from supportive policies in China?PloS one · 2023Article
- How well-targeted are payroll tax cuts as a response to COVID-19? evidence from China.International tax and public finance · 2022Article
- Which Matters More in Fighting COVID-19-Government Policy or Community Participation?Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Anatomy into the battle of supporting or opposing reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: A temporal and spatial analysis.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Based on a nationally representative survey on SMEs in China, we study the impact of government policy interventions on SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings are three-fold. First, relief policies in the form of payment deferrals and exemptions significantly improve SMEs' cash flows and further stimulate their operational recovery. This effect is more pronounced for firms with larger shares of high-skilled employees. Second, financial support policies do not appear to be effective in alleviating SMEs' cash constraints or encouraging the reopening of small businesses, potentially due to difficulties in accessing policy-oriented loans and misallocation of credit. Last, regional and local lock-down policies decrease SMEs' incidence of reopening and delay their expected reopening in the near future, likely by reducing consumer demand. Our findings shed new light on the policy debates on supporting SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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