Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an extensive economic standstill in Germany. In this dossier, the IfM Bonn regularly provides an overview of the effects in and on medium-sized companies.
Standpoint
Schumpeter in the Corona Crisis
19.10.2020 The Corona 19 pandemic has been affecting our everyday social and economic life for a good six months now. When the exogenous shock hit the German economy in March, the first thing we had to do was to counteract the rapid spread of this aggressive virus. This resulted in extensive restrictions in everyday life and temporary plant closures in many sectors of the economy. The national border closures also aggravated the economic situation in many Mittelstand enterprises, as they no longer had access to the European single market.
In order to be able to immediately cushion the negative economic consequences such as lack of liquidity and unbearable labour costs, the German government launched numerous support measures for the self-employed and companies. For most Mittelstand companies in Germany, it also paid off that they had significantly increased their equity ratio since the financial crisis of 2008/09 thanks to their good profit situation. Only among micro-enterprises, there was a high proportion of companies that did not have any equity - and thus could get into financial difficulties much more quickly.
Figure of the months
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus"
Why the start-up culture in Silicon Valley is different
If one considers - independent of individual entrepreneurial action - the influence of the founding environment, then it can be seen that this promotes incremental innovative start-ups in Germany.
Cooperation with University of Siegen
Mittelstand future panel
NUI region ranking
Offensive Mittelstand
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