TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Belitski, Maksim
AU  - Guenther, Christina
AU  - Kritikos, Alexander S.
AU  - Thurik, Roy
        TI  - Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship  and Small Businesses
        PY  - 2021/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14630
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14630
        AB  - The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic economic research.
        KW  - COVID-19
KW  - entrepreneurs
KW  - small businesses
KW  - economic effects
        ER  -