This paper uses firm-level survey responses across more than 100 emerging and developing countries to examine whether female managers...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

This paper examines the determinants of identity theft, focusing especially on the influence of internet diffusion. Results, based on...

Using data over 1870–2014, this paper provides a long-term analysis of the determinants of the U.S. shadow economy. Results show that...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting...

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes...

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at...

This paper provides insights into the behavior of academic patentees who choose to bypass in-house Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs)....

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among...

The article analyses the interrelation between unemployment and new business formation using panel data for a large cross-section of...

We analyse how different kinds of innovation affect firms‘ export propensity, finding a positive impact of incremental innovations,...

The paper studies the impact of a switch from free to charged highway provision on firm numbers and private sector employment in a...

We investigate whether firms’ "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the...

This paper uses a large cross‐country panel data sample to examine the effects of military spending on entrepreneurship. The other...

It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a...

We explore to what extent key functions in manufacturing are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from, each other within...