Firms in emerging markets fall to Covid-19
Djankov, S.
(8 September 2020)
Firms in emerging markets fall to Covid-19.
LSE Business Review.
Economists associate the mass distress of firms during recessions with Joseph Schumpeter’s creative destruction theory, which says that during downturns small, less efficient, younger firms are the ones to exit the market. Their exit allows for more efficient firms to expand, lifting overall productivity.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2020 The Author(s) |
| Departments |
LSE LSE > Research Centres > Financial Markets Group |
| Date Deposited | 12 Oct 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106771 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-6456