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Helping SMEs internationalise through trade facilitation
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Sorescu, Silvia - 2019
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in generating economic activity and employment in … developing and developed countries. However, partly due to remaining at-the-border trade costs, SMEs continue to be less … (TFIs) – and various measures of international engagement of SMEs. While there are differentiated impacts across firm size …
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Innovation and productivity in services and manufacturing : the role of ICT investment
Aboal, Diego; Tacsir, Ezequiel - 2015
Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in developed countries. However, evidence of the impacts of ICT on services and manufacturing, particularly in developing countries, is scarce. This paper analyzes the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472357
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The impact of VC on the exit and innovation outcomes of EIF-backed start-ups
Pavlova, Elitsa; Signore, Simone - 2021
innovative firms via a combination of exact and propensity score matching. To offset the limited set of observables allowed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436188
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Innovation, productivity, and spillovers effects : evidence from Chile
Crespi, Gustavo; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2019
This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992333
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The dynamic effects of income tax changes in a world of ideas
Cloyne, James; Martinez, Joseba; Mumtaz, Haroon; … - 2023
Using a narrative identification of US tax changes over the post-WWII period, we show that corporate income tax cuts foster R&D spending and innovation, leading to a persistent increase in aggregate productivity and output. In contrast, changes in the average personal income tax rate have mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475415
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Taxes, innovation and productivity
Martinez, Joseba; Mumtaz, Haroon; Surico, Paolo - 2024
Using a narrative identification of tax changes in the United States over the post-WWII period, we document that a temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in personal income tax rates only have short-term...
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Export and firms' performance in North Macedonia: self selection or learning by doing?
Jovanovic, Biljana - 2020
engaged in exporting activity tend to have superior characteristics compared to their non-exporting peers. The paper is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225037
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Income and price elasticities of Macedonian export and import of goods - a panel approach
Stefanova, Dijana Janevska; Petrovska, Magdalena - 2020
This paper uses a sectoral version of conventional Imperfect substitutes model to motivate a parsimonious estimation of trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors, which is believed to add econometric precision to our estimates....
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Which innovations for circular business models? : a product life-cycle approach
Chioatto, Elisa; Zecca, Emy; D'Amato, Alessio - 2020
The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
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SMEs in Argentina : who are the exporters
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Volpe Martincus, Christian - 2009 - This version: June 2009
Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) in a developing country, Argentina, over the period 1996-1998. We find that the … higher probability of exporting. Training activities for employees are important to export outside of MERCOSUR. -- SME …
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