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Companies worldwide increasingly engaged in corporate social responsibility disclosure, particularly corporate environmental disclosure (CED) has gained increasing importance since the 1980s. Reporting environmental performance has become a fundamental corporate governance mechanism to improve...
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This paper investigates SME financing in Italy. The literature distinguishes between two main different lending …
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …
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There is tremendous interest, in the economic literature, for the determinants of firms’ capital structure decisions. A rich body of empirical works now exists that purports to identify firm- and country-level factors affecting firms’ financing patterns. In addition, more recently, a new...
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …
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We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms (1998-2003). We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure. Panel...
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Analyzing a comprehensive database of limited liability manufacturing firms this paper investigates the relation between a firm’s financial situation and its conditional expected growth rate. Specifically, using quantile regressions, we obtain a quantitative characterization of this relation...
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