This paper examines the association between the outcome of business incubation and the resources used by incubators, by … using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms …

The occupational skill structure depends on the business cycle if employers respond to shortages of applicants during … somewhat lower but qualitatively similar responses to the business cycle despite of well known institutional differences … between the U.S. and German labour market. The responsiveness of occupational composition wages to the business cycle is …

application of the technique to macro-economic time-series data. Specifically, the evolution of the convergence of the business …

We study the Beaudry and Portier (2006)-hypothesis of delayed-technology diffusion and news-driven business cycles. For … that these shocks generate comovement of macro variables at business cycle horizons and account for a sizable share of the …

the status quo and the proposed small business de-regulation framework.This research adopted an institutional perspective …, derived from Williamson's Transaction Cost Economics. Econometric models are adopted to analyse the impacts of various factors … on the small business performance. As a complement, latent variable modelling is also used. Based on the empirical …

We study the Beaudry and Portier (2006)-hypothesis of delayed-technology diffusion and newsdriven business cycles. For …

largest non-financial business groups in the country. Five of these groups were, in 2006, still family-controlled. We find a …

mode choices to jointly affect performance. By employing theories of organizational economics and testing predictions in …