This paper reviews recent research on corporate governance, with a special focus on
emerging markets. It finds that better corporate governance benefit firms through greater …

Surveys on the link between financial markets and economic growth routinely cite scores of
distinct papers, 1 and yet the abundance of both theoretical and empirical research on the …

Recently, research on government intervention and innovation performance has emerged in
large numbers. However, the endogenous problems arising from the indirect investigations …

Firm innovation drives both firm competitiveness and economic growth. Constructing a novel
firm-patent panel database from 29 countries, I find that transparency directly boosts …

This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of
financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database …

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to establish a consistent theoretical
framework for the relationship between Islamic finance and economic growth. Second, it …

This study investigates whether firms in China use corporate social responsibility (CSR) to
build political networks and, if so, how such CSR decisions affect firm performance. We …

This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and
growth in developing countries. While small firms (< 20 employees) have the smallest share …