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Corporate bankruptcies and productivity in the wake of the pandemic
[Défaillances et productivité des entreprises post-crise sanitaire]

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  • Olivier Gonzalez

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Although fewer companies declared cessation of payments between 2020 and 2022, in median terms, less productive companies were the most prone to bankruptcy. However, the cleansing process was mitigated during the pandemic, as evidenced by the decline in the median productivity level of firms a year before their bankruptcy. This could explain part of the decline in productivity observed across French firms as a whole. This effect should be limited and temporary as firms, which would have become insolvent without the support measures, increasingly fail. Si moins d’entreprises sont entrées en cessation de paiement entre 2020 et 2022, les défaillances touchent toujours, en termes de médiane, des entreprises moins productives. Le processus de sélection des entreprises a cependant été atténué pendant la crise sanitaire, comme constaté par la baisse du niveau de productivité médian des entreprises qui ont fait défaillance. Ceci pourrait expliquer une partie de la baisse de la productivité observée pour l’ensemble des entreprises françaises. Cet effet serait limité et temporaire avec le rattrapage en cours des défaillances des entreprises qui auraient fait défaut en temps normal.

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