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Support for small businesses amid COVID-19

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A sizeable proportion of enterprises, especially SMEs, in receipt of financial assistance from the government, will fail to repay. In this paper we asked whether, and to what extent, it may be beneficial to apply a screening mechanism to deter those mostly likely to fail to repay from seeking such financial assistance in the first place. The answer largely turns on the relative weights attached for the objectives of stabilisation as compared with allocative efficiency. For this purpose, we de...

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Institution:
London School of Economics and CEPR
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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SSD
Sub department:
Saïd Business School
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ORCID:
0000-0001-8744-0217
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VU Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
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Tinbergen Institute Publisher's website
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Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper
Paper number:
TI 2020-044/IV
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English
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1120447
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pubs:1120447
Deposit date:
2020-07-20

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