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With the pandemic Covid, the Indonesian government issued a fiscal policy through the Financial Services Authority (POJK 11 2020) on National Economic Stimulus as Policy Countercyclical Impact Deployment Coronavirus Disease, 2019. This study analyzes the reaction markets banking sector in Indonesia to the event announcement publication of these regulations. This quantitative study uses the Event Study methodology. This study uses abnormal return testing events on secondary data 45 Indonesian banks listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. The method of calculating the abnormal return uses the Market Model, with an estimated period of 21 days and a window period of 11 days. The research period was carried out between February 11 and March 20, 2020. The test carries out with an average of difference test before and after the event, with an error rate of 5%. Based on the cumulative abnormal return t-test, data shows that from minus five days, the regulation's announcement up to 5 days after which the market moves significantly negative. This event study is a news phenomenon of Indonesia's latest financial policies related to banking stocks during the Covid pandemic.

SME restaurants have reported declined earnings and faced challenges to remain open during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period imposed by the Malaysian government due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. SME decision-makers were observed to be making changes regarding their day-to-day operations and management strategies to mitigate MCO restrictions. This paper aims to review the significant adaptations made by SME restaurants in Malaysia throughout the MCO period. Three (3) prominent areas of adaptations made by decision-makers have been identified based upon ceaseless news reports and media contents. The adaptations made commonly depict actions to (i) Nurture Creativity, (ii) Sustain Reputation, and (iii) Maintain Profitability. The outcomes of this paper provide essential survival guides for SME restauranteurs to embrace the COVID-19 outbreak. These can be helpful to related policy and decision-makers to implement the crucial traits of SME restaurants to reduce the impact on SME restaurants for the foreseeable future.

The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to continue to the year 2022 and could lead to several business failures if entrepreneurs do not respond adequately. Thus, the purpose of this study is to introduce a framework that captures the impacts and potential responses to the ongoing pandemic. To do that, we conducted telephone interviews with ten entrepreneurs who operate enterprises within Nigeria. Data collected for analysis were transcribed, chronologically arranged, coded, and thematically analyzed using NVivo. Our findings revealed that, during the pandemic, businesses experienced limited opening hours, a decline in their clients' patronage, lower turnover, and employee demotivation. In response, business owners should consider re-strategizing their business activities, maintaining connections with clients, and exploiting available support measures. Our findings have profound theoretical and practical implications. For entrepreneurs and policymakers, they offer insights into the form of challenges confronting businesses during a pandemic. It also provides response activities that entrepreneurs could adopt to mitigate the impact of an epidemic on their enterprises’ performance. For the field of entrepreneurship, it advances the need to integrate public health (health-related issues) into entrepreneurship study and consider its multiple levels of influence on the performance of businesses.