7 articles in this issue
Roberto Alvarez, Matteo Grazzi
The long-run economic performance of Latin America has been unsatisfactory especially in comparison with other emerging economies, which have been able to “catch up” with developed countries. The historically low innovation and dynamic entrepreneurship ra... see more
Diego A. Martin
While there is a broad consensus in the literature that there is a positive correlation between Internet usage and labor income in the richest countries, this link has not been proven in the developing world. This paper uses propensity score matching tech... see more
Alejandro Bello-Pintado, Carlos Bianchi
This paper analyses the relationship between horizontal educational diversity (HED) and firm innovation performance, both in the propensity to innovate and the intensity of innovation in firm performance. Moreover, we hypothesise that the organizational s... see more
Isabela Echeverry Peñón, Santiago Reyes Ortega
This paper presents evidence on the role of the endowment effect in shaping the risk-taking behavior of entrepreneurs, and how the potential of losing their firms lead them to take higher risks. This study uses an experimental design with 466 entrepreneur... see more
Mariano Pereira, Julián Martínez Correa, Gabriel Scattolo
This paper studies the impact of non-refundable grants (NRG) of the Argentinean Technological Fund (FONTAR) on firms’ innovative efforts and performance. We use a panel database of 954 firms that applied for public support to innovate during the period 20... see more
Daniel Bukstein, Elisa Hernández, Ximena Usher
El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar los impactos de los instrumentos de promoción de la innovación orientada al sector productivo implementados por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación. Se aplicó una combinación de técnicas no experi... see more
Lucas Navarro
This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO’s (Chile’s main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This paper analyzes the likely impact of the program-which is a subsidy ... see more