Global Corporate Stress Tests-Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses /

Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability and...

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Autor principal: Tressel, Thierry
Outros Autores: Ding, Xiaodan
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/212
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