Máñez, Juan A.; Rochina-Barrachina, María E.; … - Departament d'Estructura Econòmica, Facultad de Economía - 2014
This paper analyses the sources of persistence in conducting R&D activities by SMEs. The data used is a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms drawn from the Survey of Business Strategies (ESEE), for the period 1990-2011. We estimate discrete time proportional hazard models accounting for firm...