%0 Report
        %A Belitski, Maksim
%A Guenther, Christina
%A Kritikos, Alexander S.
%A Thurik, Roy
        %T Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship  and Small Businesses
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14630
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14630
        %X 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.
        %K COVID-19
%K entrepreneurs
%K small businesses
%K economic effects