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 …

affects negatively the value of the introduced product and processes innovation. Second, the theoretical model suggests that …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity … ; innovation ; broadband Internet …