This paper examines the impact of financial constraints on innovation for established firms. We make use of a direct measure of the existence of financial constraints obtained thanks to a specific survey addressed to French established firms (FIT, Sessi). This is a distinctive feature of this...

The paper analyzes the existence and impact of financing constraints as a possibly serious obstacle to innovation by .rms. The econometric framework we employ in our study is the simultaneous bivariate probit with mutual endogeneity of direct indicators of financial constraints and innovation...

Diese Dissertation beinhaltet vier Artikel. Im ersten Artikel werden Daten zu (finanziellem) Vermögen und Einkommen in Österreich anhand einer Faktorzerlegung der Verteilung dieser Indikatoren analysiert. Zu den Ergebnissen zählt die Dokumentation der Unterschiede zwischen Einkommen und...