Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data

COVID-19: Iran’s Actions to Deal with and Control the Pandemic and Practical Suggestions

The role of data science in encountering COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic started in China and quickly spread throughout the world. This pandemic has affected the health of millions of people, the global economy and has challenged the majority of scientists and politicians to find effective medical treatments and intelligent policies to reduce the side effects of this pandemic as soon as possible. Technological advancements have enabled us to co...

“Access to finance of SMEs: What can we learn from survey data?” Access to credit for Italian Firms: New Evidence from the ISTAT Confidence Surveys

Since the beginning of the recent recession, there has been a growing interest in timely information about lending conditions in the corporate sector: indeed, access to credit is one of the main channels through which a financial crisis may spread to the real sector of the economy. This may be particularly true in the case of Italy, where banking credit is by and large the main financing channe...

Data, information, and knowledge amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

Converting data into information, knowledge, and then wisdom is the most onerous part of science, especially biological sciences. More attention must be paid to the difficulty inherent in this process amid the emergence and the spread of a novel virus, since neglecting the distinction between these epistemic categories can lead to incomplete and even incorrect identification of the causes and t...

Do Resources Flow to Patenting Firms? Cross-country Evidence from Firm-level Data

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