Dealing with increasing insolvencies, maintaining crisis-related policy support only as long as necessary, and ensuring ﬁnancial sector resilience will be among the policy priorities going forward. There is still a high degree of uncertainty concerning the future evolution of the pandemic and the damage that has been done to the real economy.
Papers in this session examine whether community banks influence newfirm survival, whether equipment finance is a potential growth area for community banks, how community bank failures affect local economic performance, and whether community bank lending relationships in rural areas are fundamentally different from those in urban areas. Two research sessions are scheduled for tomorrow morning.