Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … confirm using a regression discontinuity design. We build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We extend a Schumpeterian … how political connections influence an economy's business dynamism and innovation, and generate a number of implications …

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …

choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …

choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …