transport costs. We find that diminished transportation infrastructure had a significant negative impact on firms’ exports. …

for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in … SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates … and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to employment growth and accessions and …

Asian economies. Meanwhile, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make a small contribution to supply chain activity … also influence jo ining supply chains. The paper suggests that governments can facilit ate SMEs joining supply chains … through a market-oriented strategy for SMEs, modern physical infrastructure, streamlined bureaucratic procedures and good …

contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean … variation in sales, while the remaining part is equally accounted for by average attributes and their dispersion. Quality is the … distribution of firms' sales, especially due to heterogeneity in quality. These countries also tend to be more likely to host …

Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SMEs) in a developing country, Argentina, over the period 1996-1998. We find that the … ; Exports ; Argentina …

and weak contract enforcement at home, domestic expansion of SMEs is constrained by the necessity of awarding trade credit …

firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by firms during the period 1995-2005. Our … our results suggest that this positive effect is only for SMEs. In terms of employment and sales, we find that export … product churning has positive effect on large firms and lower - and in some case negative - on SMEs. It seems that changes in …