The paper investigates the relationship between bank interest rate margins and collateral for loans issued to new ventures. The...

A new body called Tourism Ireland, funded jointly by the British and Irish Governments, has been set up to promote tourism for the...

This paper investigates the relative importance of property rights and transactions cost factors in driving the decision of firms to...

This paper argues for an ambitious but realistic approach to defining the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The...

Previous aggregate studies ignore additional environmental improvements caused by intra industry reallocations to high productivity/...

A decade ago few economists would have been surprised at the idea that Chinese research capability was evolving in standard textbook...

Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these elasticities may...

This paper estimates the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) of CO2 emissions in China based on a provincial panel for the period of...

This paper investigates the technical inefficiency, shadow price and substitution elasticity of CO2 emissions of China based on a...

This paper estimates the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) of CO2 emissions in China based on a provincial panel for the period of...

This paper investigates the role of regional credit systems for Chinese regional innovation, using data for the period 2000-2008. Both...

In this paper, we propose a new meta-frontier estimation method to investigate the environmental technical efficiency and carbon...

We propose that the effect of market concentration on firm survival is different according to whether an industry is static (low entry...

The standard indicators used to compare cross-country innovation are in the Global Competitiveness Report (GCR). But there are...

The standard indicators used to compare cross-country innovation are in the Global Competitiveness Report (GCR). But there are...

There is a well-established theoretical and empirical literature that shows that exporters are more innovative than otherwise...

There is a well-established theoretical and empirical literature that shows that exporters are more innovative than otherwise...

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in China, using a more...

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity producing sector....

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity-producing sector....