The innovation process is a fundamental source of economic growth and recent research in urban economics and economic geography suggests that geographical proximity between innovators may be important to technological innovation. Many authors also claim that the rise of a knowledge-based economy...

Historically, in Spain and most European countries, forest fire budgets have never been subjected to an objective and rigorous economic analysis indicative of the returns on investments in fire management protection programs. Thus far we have witnessed expansive growth of costs without any...

Penoles began operations in 1887 as a mining company. It currently controls more than 20active companies involved in exploration, mining, foundation and refining of precious metalsand industrial and developing inorganic chemical product which integrates differentcompanies involved in the...

The objective of this paper was to determine and analyze the main competitiveperformance indicators of the pulp producing agro-industries of the local tropical fruits’agricluster of the Metropolitan Region of Belém and Northeast of Pará. The competitiveperformance was evaluated by using...

In India, the term ‘sick units’ refers to economically unviable firms which are kept alive ‘in the public interest’ by means of subsidies of various kinds. Since this practice is common, and large parts of the industrial sector are affected, this phenomenon is referred to as industrial...

In India, the term ‘sick units’ refers to economically unviable firms which are kept alive ‘in the public interest’ by means of subsidies of various kinds. Since this practice is common, and large parts of the industrial sector are affected, this phenomenon is referred to as industrial...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden ausgewählte Probleme, die im Zusammenhang mit der Subventionierung von erneuerbarer Energien stehen, in finanztheoretischen und industrieökonomischen Modellen formal analysiert. Der erste Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Subventionierung von...

The impressive and sustained growth of India's automobile industry in recent years has catapulted it into the league of the world's top-seven producers of four-wheelers. In the past decade, its exports have surged more than 25 percent a year on average. The turning point was arguably the 1991...

We model EU countries? bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst ?new? EU countries typically have lower ratings than...