What are the most important factors for the success of a startup? This study aims to shed light on this issue through the statistical analysis of a bibliographical sample of 60 recent articles. Through a detailed study of the selected literature, but from the perspective of business experience,...

Outsourcing to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) has become a widespread practice by pharmaceutical and biotechnological firms seeking to reduce risks and costs associated to the development of new products. This paper analyzes empirically the efficiency of the CROs industry by looking at a...

We examine empirically the path of consumption growth over time by looking at detailed microdata for the Spanish economy. We estimate different versions of a Euler equation linking consumption growth to the real interest rate and other socioeconomic and demographic variables. We work with two...

We explore the efficiency in the oil industry employing a sample of around 300 companies operating in Europe over 2010-2019. We construct efficiency scores by means of DEA non-parametric techniques. Average efficiency in the sample is modest, 0.27 and decreasing over time. We examine the...

Increases in the cost of research, specialization and reductions in public expenditure in health are changing the economic environment for the pharmaceutical industry. Gains in productivity and efficiency are increasingly important in order for firms to succeed in this environment. We analyze...

In this paper we investigate the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented gravity model in which we control for cross-country...

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern -horizontal versus vertical- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...