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Small and Medium Sized European Firms and Energy Efficiency Measures : A Probit Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2022
This paper investigates the factors (such as different sources of financing, energy audits and internal monitoring activities) affecting the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt energy efficiency measures (EEMs). For this purpose, a Probit model is estimated...
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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Rogers, Parker - 2021
innovation. We use machine learning tools to develop new data describing the aspects of medical and mechanical innovations that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314761
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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework
de la Torre, Augusto; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009
foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276834
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055566
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The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change
Dao, Thang; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2022
We consider how the demographic transition has been shaped in regions that are the least developed and the most vulnerable to climate change. Environmental conditions affect intra-household labor allocation because of the impacts on local resources under the poor infrastructural system. Climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243472
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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; van … - 2014
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333391
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Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine; Rault, Christophe - 2024
While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green technologies. This papier investigates whether the financial inclusion influences the dynamic of carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061960
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Euro area SMEs under financial constraints: Belief or reality?
Artola, Concha; Genre, Veronique - 2011
reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279375
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Cybercrime on the Ethereum Blockchain
Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023
We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims' risk-taking and returns. Our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victims and matched non-victims suggests that victims increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377572
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Cybercrime on the Ethereum Blockchain
Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023
We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims’ risk-taking and returns. Our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victims and matched non-victims suggests that victims increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352598