Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison …

This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in …, differs in a number of ways from much of the previous cross-country comparisons on the relationship between innovation and … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterized as a vital part of the innovation process. The … availability of such innovation impulses, however, critically depends on the environment a firm is operating in. Little is known on … how institutional infrastructures for innovation differ with respect to the munificence in providing innovation impulses …

verbreiteten Konzept der effektiven Grenzsteuerbelastung steht. Ein Vergleich mit tariflichen Steuersätzen deutet auf steuerliche … effective marginal tax rates and thus can show whether an investment is favoured or discriminated against by a simple comparison …