A growing body of theoretical contributions and empirical studies has explored how the spatial distribution of public resources and governmental transfers is likely to be driven by efficiency and equity, as well as by political considerations. This article applies this line of research to...

Following the political economics literature documenting how public resources are likely to be geographically distributed along equity and efficiency as well as political considerations, this article is aimed at exploring to what extent, and through which channels, politics play a role in...

One of the most important decisions that governments face is how to allocate the public resources necessary for development, given each country’s budget constraints. According to the literature on the links between wealth and institutional performance, highly kleptocratic countries are...

A growing body of theoretical contributions and empirical studies has explored how the spatial distribution of public resources and governmental transfers is likely to be driven by efficiency and equity, as well as by political considerations. This article applies this line of research to...

One of the most important decisions that governments face is how to allocate the public resources necessary for development, given each country’s budget constraints. According to the literature on the links between wealth and institutional performance, highly kleptocratic countries are...

Today, however, the concept of capital strongly focuses on intellectual capital, understood as the current or potential creative resource, or the increase in the wealth of a community. In this context, it is worth to examine the legitimacy of thesis about the expansive reality of Polish town...

Exploring a novel dataset and a unique policy experiment, this paper examines the role of government intervention in the emergence of venture capital (VC) in China during 1999-2013. Using difference-in-difference methodology, I find that the central government program leads to an increase in...

This study investigates the effects of government R&D programs on firm innovation outputs, which are measured by the number of patents, sales from new products, and exports. Particularly, we examine the effects of Innovation Fund for Small and Medium Technology-based Firms (Innofund), which is...

Today, however, the concept of capital strongly focuses on intellectual capital, understood as the current or potential creative resource, or the increase in the wealth of a community. In this context, it is worth to examine the legitimacy of thesis about the expansive reality of Polish town...

Today, however, the concept of capital strongly focuses on intellectual capital, understood as the current or potential creative resource, or the increase in the wealth of a community. In this context, it is worth to examine the legitimacy of thesis about the expansive reality of Polish town...