2011 to examine how bank competition affects firm innovation and how firm size and ownership influence the effects of bank … competition. The results show that bank competition promotes firm-level innovation and that this positive effect is stronger for … innovation for transparent firms and domestic firms. These conclusions thus shed light on the real effects of bank competition …

The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing countries aiming to achieve higher growth … and wellbeing. This study analyzes whether different types of innovation affect export behavior at the firm level for an …) techniques are applied to data from 2003 to 2012. Unlike other studies, productivity-enhancing (or cost-reducing) innovation …