This paper empirically investigates the economic impacts of COVID-19. Using firm-level data from Europe, we first analyze the statistics of how firms’ production, sales, workforce, expectations, and received government support have been affected during 2020. We then examine the determinants of...

This paper examines the learning-by-exporting effect in Chinese manufacturing firms from 2005 to 2007. The traditional view is that exporting can lead to increased productivity by facilitating access to the global market and, thus, information and cutting-edge technologies; this process has been...

This paper empirically examines the determinants that can help job searchers successfully find jobs. We acquire individual-level data from the 2009 National Employment Survey of Chile, and use an innovative non-linear estimation which examines the influences of two individual-level factors: job...

We acquired firm-level data from 27 post-communist economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during 2002–08, and we estimated financial constraints’ longitudinal impacts on firms’ innovating activities. Overall, we found financial constraints to significantly impede firms’ innovation...

We empirically study how firms’ longitudinal development will be affected by their bribing decisions in order to address the controversies existing in the extant literature on the impacts of briberies. We acquired data from Enterprise Survey by the World Bank, and compiled a unique panel...

This paper empirically studies the influence of firms’ independent research and development on productivity. It considers two R&D behaviors of firms: independent innovation and dependent imitation. We acquire data from 28 post-communist economies between 2017 and 2019, and innovatively create...

This paper empirically investigates the economic effects of environmental activities. To be specific, it investigates the interactive influence of firms’ environmental management and environmental innovation on their productivity. We consider both internal and external environmental management...

This paper empirically investigates the influences of financial constraint, sources, supports, and loan applications on firms’ research and development (R&D). We separately consider general R&D and green R&D. Further, under each R&D, we distinguish between independent innovation and dependent...