What enables Ecuadorian manufacturing firms to start exporting? And what are the determinants of the share of total sales exported by a firm, once the decision of becoming an exporter has been made? We apply a Heckman selection model to the Ecuador's Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to...

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

Given the importance of SME sector plays for the national economy and flexibility of SMEs in relation to market challenges, it requires the establishment of a public entity (any agency) National Intellectual Property Turning to facilitate cooperation between owners copyrights and entrepreneurs.

The technological backwardness of Latin America as a consequence of geographical and microeconomics related factors - The present paper deals with the relation between geographical conditions in a specific region and the occurrence of innovations. The objective is to analyze the reasons for the...