Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling

The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of Covid-19 on business behavior and its spatial effect among companies. Four specifications have been developed to analyze the pandemic's influence on key variables determining business behavior: liquidity, indebtedness, profitability, and effic...

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Main Authors: David Garnés Galindo, Manuel Ruiz-Marín, María Luz Maté-Sánchez-Val
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Language:English
Published: AECR 2024-10-01
Series:Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
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Online Access:https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/article/view/104421
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description The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of Covid-19 on business behavior and its spatial effect among companies. Four specifications have been developed to analyze the pandemic's influence on key variables determining business behavior: liquidity, indebtedness, profitability, and efficiency. This study has focused on the province of Barcelona, Spain, from which a database of failed and non-failed companies has been compiled, both before and after the pandemic. The models have been estimated using the spatial Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) methodology, and each equation was estimated following a spatial Differences-in-Differences model. The results confirm that the emergence of Covid-19 has had a significant impact on companies' financial ratios, worsening their positions in terms of liquidity, indebtedness, and efficiency, with the existence of a spatial contagion pattern.
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spelling doaj-art-6bc205608b784698be0f1b3f7e6313cd2025-08-20T03:41:05ZengAECRInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research1695-72532340-27172024-10-0110.38191/iirr-jorr.24.047Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive ModellingDavid Garnés GalindoManuel Ruiz-MarínMaría Luz Maté-Sánchez-Val The objective of this study is to estimate the impact of Covid-19 on business behavior and its spatial effect among companies. Four specifications have been developed to analyze the pandemic's influence on key variables determining business behavior: liquidity, indebtedness, profitability, and efficiency. This study has focused on the province of Barcelona, Spain, from which a database of failed and non-failed companies has been compiled, both before and after the pandemic. The models have been estimated using the spatial Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) methodology, and each equation was estimated following a spatial Differences-in-Differences model. The results confirm that the emergence of Covid-19 has had a significant impact on companies' financial ratios, worsening their positions in terms of liquidity, indebtedness, and efficiency, with the existence of a spatial contagion pattern. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/article/view/104421Business failurecovidDifferences-in-Differencescurrent ratiodebt ratioprofitability
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Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
Business failure
covid
Differences-in-Differences
current ratio
debt ratio
profitability
title Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
title_full Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
title_fullStr Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
title_full_unstemmed Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
title_short Unveiling the pandemic's impact: Did COVID-19 drive business failures? A Cutting-Edge Analysis with Spatial Autoregressive Modelling
title_sort unveiling the pandemic s impact did covid 19 drive business failures a cutting edge analysis with spatial autoregressive modelling
topic Business failure
covid
Differences-in-Differences
current ratio
debt ratio
profitability
url https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/article/view/104421
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