“…Comin et al (2022) confirm that technological sophistication can be associated with higher sales at early stages of the crisis. Bertschek et al (2022) show that the self-employed whose businesses were highly digitalised, benefited much more from the state aid provided by the German government during the pandemic compared to those whose businesses were less digitalised. By analysing World Bank data, Cariolle and Léon (2022) as well as Wagner (2021) show that having a website is related to firm survival during the pandemic.…”