As private non-profit, locally based organizations, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are increasingly important supporters of community development policies and programs designed to alleviate poverty. In the face of declining federal funds and political support for social...

Time-series work on trade policy and growth is handicapped by the difficulty of measuring 'trade policy'. Established definitions of trade orientation such as 'bias' or the 'effective rate of protection' are difficult to operationalise in a time-series context because of enormous data...

This study is the first to use Johansen's cointegration approach for India in the analysis of the long-term dynamics between the black and official exchange rates for the period 1953-1993. The study also estimates the long-run elasticity of the official rate with respect to the black market...

This paper contributes to the developing literature on complementarities in organizational design. We test for the existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and German manufacturing plants. Our evidence suggests...

Love J. H., Roper S. and Hewitt-Dundas N. Service innovation, embeddedness and business performance: evidence from Northern Ireland, Regional Studies. This paper explores the factors that determine innovation by service firms, and in particular the contribution of intra- and extra-regional...

This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Previous literature suggests that innovators are persistently more profitable than non-innovators, but little is known about how this link is...