“…A probable caveat of our analysis is the possibility of a structural break in the data due to the changing business dynamics from Covid-19. The studies like ( Naeem, Tiwari, Mubashra, & Shahbaz, 2019 ; Nasir, Al-Emadi, Shahbaz, & Hammoudeh, 2019 ; Omay, Shahbaz, & Hasanov, 2020 ; Shahbaz, Rehman, & Afza, 2016 ; Solarin, Shahbaz, & Stewart, 2018 ) and ( Shahbaz, Tahir, Ali, & Rehman, 2014 ) have extensively documented the role of structural stability in model estimation during changing business cycles. The limitation of this study to apply a comprehensive structural break analysis is the post Covid-19 firm-level data, which is only available for two quarters (till end June 2020).…”