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Companies: hard landing after the Covid?

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Companies: difficult landing after the Covid?

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By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

The figures were published while the biggest bosses in the world are currently gathered for the Forum in Davos (Switzerland): business failures are on the rise again.

According to the insurer Allianz, 10% of global companies this year (2022), and 14% next year (2023) should be affected by safeguard proceedings, payment default or liquidation.

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How to explain this situation ?

Should we be alarmed, or is it just a return to normal with the end of exceptional aid linked to the health crisis?

What are the prospects for companies in a world dominated by instability due in particular to the war in Ukraine?

To discuss:

- Anne Epaulard

, Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University, scientific advisor to France Stratégie and co-author of various notes on business failures during and after the Covid.

Latest note: Business failures: still no post-Covid catch-up effect (published May 20, 2022)

- Anne-Sophie Alsif

, Chief Economist at the BDO (Economic Consulting Firm) and Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, specialist in Economic Forecasts

- Jean-François Ferrando

, President of the National Confederation of Very Small Enterprises (CNTPE).

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