After the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvency filings has reached a record low in 2020. However, industry sectors are affected differently. In the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvencies in the service sector decreased most substantially. In the third...

This note presents the results of two ad-hoc questions on the impact of the corona-crisis, which were included in the April-wave of the European Commission's Joint Harmonised EU Programme of Business Surveys. The questions were asked to German, Spanish and Austrian firms in the industry,...