Incluye bibliografía ; This paper analyses the impact that firms' financial position has on investment decisions using panel data from a large sample of non-financial corporations (around 120,000 firms) in six euro area countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). The...

This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....

Using World Bank ICS data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper identifiesinnovation strategies of firms - in particular internal technology creation (make) and externaltechnology acquisition (buy)- and their effect on successful process and product innovations.It also explores the...