The Calm Before the Storm
| dc.creator | Muro, Sergio | |
| dc.date | 2021-03-12T19:29:48Z | |
| dc.date | 2021-03-12T19:29:48Z | |
| dc.date | 2021-02-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-01T00:39:11Z | |
| dc.description | The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic brought forward an unprecedented economic contraction. Recessions, in turn, have typically been accompanied by an increase in the number of firms using the insolvency system. This note explores the early impact the pandemic has had on business insolvency filings, based on information from a newly created dataset. Contrary to early expectations, most economies surveyed have experienced a decline in the number of business insolvencies relative to Q2 and Q3 of 2019. shows that legal reasons may have played a key role in this decline as almost all economies covered introduced emergency measures making it more difficult to push a debtor into insolvency. Looking forward, the note explores evidence from previous crisis together with underlying factors -such as lower sales, higher unemployment, firm liquidity challenges, and heightened corporate vulnerabilities- to investigate whether the risk of a wave of insolvencies has disappeared. The analysis suggests that a rise in insolvency filings is likely to have just been postponed, renewing the calls to strengthen insolvency frameworks in EMDEs. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | text/plain | |
| dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/962221615273849133/The-Calm-Before-the-Storm-Early-Evidence-on-Business-Insolvency-Filings-After-the-Onset-of-COVID-19 | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35261 | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.1596/35261 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408367 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
| dc.relation | COVID-19 Notes; | |
| dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
| dc.rights | World Bank | |
| dc.subject | CORONAVIRUS | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.subject | PANDEMIC IMPACT | |
| dc.subject | BUSINESS INSOLVENCY | |
| dc.subject | CREDITOR RIGHTS | |
| dc.subject | BANKRUPTCY | |
| dc.subject | GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS | |
| dc.subject | BANKING CRISIS | |
| dc.subject | GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN | |
| dc.subject | DEBT | |
| dc.title | The Calm Before the Storm | |
| dc.title | Early Evidence on Business Insolvency Filings After the Onset of COVID-19 | |
| dc.type | Brief | |
| dc.type | Fiche | |
| dc.type | Resumen |