How does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial? Does access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data...

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...

This study investigates the relationship between stock liquidity and frm innovation for publicly traded growing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China using both innovation input and output. We collected samples of 785 SMEs from China's Shenzhen Growth Enterprises Market without the...