and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly …

economically meaningful impacts on the survival probability of the SMEs being researched. The evidence holds even when we control …

distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale … desire of governments to foster risky 'breakthrough' innovations. -- business taxation ; innovation ; market entry …