Through a survey of CEOs of Russian industrial companies administered in the second half of 2011 we have tried to understand the forces that lead some firms to decide to engage in more innovative activities than others and examined the types of routines associated with this decision. We found...

The aim of the paper is to establish the relationship between the customer capital and the company's market value (MV). Examining this impact seems justified as the topic has been rarely investigated till now. The regression analysis was used to achieve the research objective. We analyzed...

They do. Partly. We identify credit supply shocks via sign restrictions in a Bayesian VAR and separate them into positive and negative. Using local projections, we find that positive credit supply shocks leave notably different prints in private debt, mortgage debt, and debt-to-GDP, as opposed...

Cryptocurrencies (CCs) have become increasingly interesting for institutional investors' strategic asset allocation and will therefore be a fixed component of professional portfolios in the future. However, this asset class differs from established assets primarily in that it has a higher...

In the past decades, intangibles assets have become an important source of productivity and economic growth in developed countries. Despite the transforming properties of intangibles across economies and the large and dynamic literature on the impact of intangible investments on productivity...

Kein EU-Land investiert so wenig in seine öffentliche Infrastruktur wie Deutschland. Im europäischen Durchschnitt wurden seit 2000 jährlich etwa 3,7% des BIP für Straßen, Schulbau und andere staatliche Investitionen aufgewendet. Deutschland lag mit durchschnittlich 2,1% deutlich darunter....

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gross fixed capital formation across the euro area. The empirical analysis suggests that the intensity of the lockdown measures to contain the spread of the virus and the country-specific structure of the economy along with other...

Au lendemain de la transition démocratique, les autorités guinéennes ont misé davantage sur les flux entrants d'investissements directs étrangers (IDE) en tant que source alternative de financement de l'économie. Or, les résultats escomptés restent nettement inférieurs au potentiel du...

Intellectual capital is not sufficiently depicted in the annual reports of Polish companies, although it plays an important role in the operation and market valuation of enterprises. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the possibilities of using the KCETM method for depicting intellectual...

This paper draws on a debate between Robert Skidelsky and Paul Krugman on the expansionary austerity hypothesis as a motivation to build a demand-driven agent-based model. The model features contagion across firms to explore whether fiscal consolidations may become expansionary due to a positive...