This paper examines the association between the outcome of business incubation and the resources used by incubators, by using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms graduating from an STBI is closely correlated with...

In this paper, the authors discuss the second order asymptotic efficiency of estimators of [beta] based on MLE for Y=X[beta]+g(T)+[epsilon], where X,T, [epsilon] are independent, g is unknown, [epsilon] [approximate] [phi](·) is known with mean 0 and variance [sigma]2.