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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...

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Euro Area SMEs Under Financial Constraints : Belief or Reality?

Artola, Concha - 2013

reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use …

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SMEs and Access to Bank Credit : Evidence on the Regional Propagation of the Financial Crisis in the UK

Degryse, Hans - 2015

We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks' financial condition before and during the financial crisis. Employing unique data on the geographical location of all bank branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit...

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Reflections on Cluster Policies

Brakman, Steven - 2012

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

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Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Clean Technology Development in the European Union

Dechezlepretre, Antoine - 2015

This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...

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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - 2021

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....

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Even Small Trade Costs Restore Efficiency in Tax Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2010

We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax … competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the …

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from...

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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs : The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework

de la Torre, Augusto - 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 …

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