Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234588 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 399
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
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. A web site helped firms to survive.
Subjects: 
web presence
firm survival
COVID-19
World Bank Enterprise Surveys
JEL: 
D22
L20
L25
L29
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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