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Does Internal and External R&D Affect SMEs Innovation Performance? Micro Level Evidence from India and Pakistan

Rehman, Naqeeb Ur - 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs …. Similarly, Pakistani SMEs are externally constrained (lack of access to credit) than Indian SMEs. Moreover, Indian SMEs are …

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Inverted-U relationship between innovation and survival: Evidence from firm-level UK data

Guidi, Francesco; Solomon, Edna; Trushin, Eshref; Ugur, … - 2015

Theoretical and empirical work on innovation and firm survival has produced varied and often conflicting findings. In this paper, we draw on Schumpeterian models of competition and innovation and stochastic models of firm dynamics to demonstrate that the conflicting findings may be due to linear...

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Who benefits from the decentralized energy system (DES)? Evidence from Nepal’s micro-hydropower (MHP)

Subedi, Mukti Nath; Bharadwaj, Bishal; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2021

In low-income countries, uneven access to clean energy has posed a challenge to reduce socioeconomic inequalities across gender and disadvantaged groups. To address this issue, development planners see potentials from the decentralized energy system (DES) that provides electricity access in...

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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Credit demand versus supply channels: Experimental- and administrative-based evidence

Michelangeli, Valentina; Peydró, José-Luis; Sette, Enrico - 2021

We identify the relative importance for lending of borrower (demand) versus bank (supply) factors. We submit thousands of fictitious mortgage applications, changing one borrower-level factor at time, to the major Italian online mortgage platform. Each application goes to all banks. We find that...

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Some Transaction Cost Effects of Authoritarian Management

Vasilev, Aleksandar; Todorova, Tamara - 2016

This paper studies the transaction-cost economizing effects of authoritarian management in organizations and systems subject to higher transaction costs originating from various sources. We analyze the nature, mechanisms and transaction-cost aspects of the authoritarian management style. We...

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The Effect of Unexpected Chart Positions on the Firm Value of Music Labels. An Event Study of Album Success

Mehrafshan, Nima; Goerke, Björn; Clement, Michel - 2016

We conduct an event study to (1) analyze whether investors revise their expectations about a music album’s success when new chart information is published and (2) estimate how these revised expectations affect the value of a music label. We find that expectations about the success of an album...

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Long-term effects of subsidies on firm growth: introducing the concept of outcome additionality

Goerke, Björn; Albers, Sönke - 2016

Public agencies provide subsidies for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) to foster their development in terms of … long-term effects of subsidies on SME growth. Relying on a unique dataset of actual SMEs we provide a means of evaluating …

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No Shortage of Profit: Semiconductor firms and the differential effects of chip shortages

Mouré, Christopher - 2022

Few will argue with the claim that shortages are socially harmful. Shortages, by definition, imply a lack of something – not enough stuff to go around. A shortage of food implies hunger; a shortage of electricity implies darkness. But are shortages harmful to everyone equally? And if they are...

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Monetary System of Georgia in XI-XII centuries and its Effect on Economic Activity

Abuselidze, George - 2018

This works covers peculiarities of formation of Georgian monetary system in XI-XII centuries and their effect on the international financial and economic relations. In this works we have researched the matters of formation of monetary policy of feudal age and their effect on development of...

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