Extant studies examine the role of financial constraints on the international activity of the firms. However, they are mostly focused on the manufacturing sector, traditionally perceived as tradable. The literature recently recognized the growing role of service sector in international trade,...

The objective of our paper is to investigate how the access to finance affects the creation of new business in EU, by identifying the relationship between several indicators, measuring the access to finance, the specifics of business environment, and the dynamics of new business creation. Our...

The paper aims to examine whether R&D-active companies are financially constrained based on a self-assessment approach. A second aim is to check whether a company's size has any impact on access to capital for R&D-active firms. The study is based on data collected from more than 400 enterprises...