Report NEP-SBM-2026-07-20

This is the archive for NEP-SBM, a report on new working papers in the area of Small Business Management. João Carlos Correia Leitão (Joao Carlos Correia Leitao) issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Baslandze, Salomé & Vardishvili, Ia, 2026, "Born Different: Entrepreneurship through Inventor Mobility, Innovation, and Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21016, Jan.
• E. Marrocu & R. Paci & L. Serafini, 2026, "Firms Partnering for the Twin Transition: The Role of Spatial, Technological and Relational Proximity," Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia, number 202610.
• Vezina, Pierre-Louis & Aksoy, Cevat Giray & Lewandowski, Piotr, 2025, "Refugees and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20854, Nov.
• Annie Liu & Riley Sullivan & Jeffrey P. Thompson, 2026, "The Large Role Small Businesses Play in Employment in New England," New England Public Policy Center Regional Brief, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, number 26-1, Jul.
• Borsekova, Kamila & Korony, Samuel & Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés & Styk, Michal & Westlund, Hans, 2026, "Decoding Regional Dynamics: Institutions, Innovation, and Regional Development in the EU," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20988, Jan.
• Ugo Fratesi & Pietro Vicari, 2026, "Firm Interactions and Potential Ecosystems: A Bottom-Up Approach to Territorial Network Analysis," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2612, Jul, revised Jul 2026.
• Udo Kreickemeier & Zhan Qu & Florian Unger, 2026, "Offshoring and Firm-level Innovation," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12789.
• Bergeaud, Antonin & Nur Gozen, Ruveyda & Van Reenen, John, 2026, "Mapping Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Two Centuries of Patent Data," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21066, Jan.
• Sébastien Houde & Wenjun Wang, 2026, "AI Adoption, Carbon Intensity, and Rebound Effect: Evidence from China," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12803.
• Gechter, Michael & Kala, Namrata, 2026, "Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Place-Based Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21060, Jan.
• Cullen, Zöe & Faia, Ester & Guglielminetti, Elisa & Perez-Truglia, Ricardo & Rondinelli, Concetta, 2025, "The Innovation Race: Large Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20894, Dec.
• Sergio Petralia & Ron Boschma, 2026, "Actionable Disclosure in Patents: How Open Code Reduces Spatial Barriers to Knowledge Diffusion," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2611, Jul, revised Jul 2026.
• Aldasoro, Inaki & Gambacorta, Leonardo & Pál, Rozália & Revoltella, Debora & Weiss, Christoph & Wolski, Marcin, 2026, "AI Adoption, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from European Firms," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21082, Jan.
• Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés & Xiang, Leiboyu & Lee, Neil, 2025, "Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World’s Scientific Elites," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20970, Dec.
• Bijnens, Gert & Konings, Jozef & Putseys, Aaron, 2025, "Unveiling the J-curve: How Intangibles Drive Productivity Mismeasurement," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20825, Nov.
• José Luis Moraga-González & Evgenia Motchenkova, 2026, "Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-001/VII, Jan.
• Kwon, Seoyoung & Lee, Jongkwan & Monras, Joan, 2026, "The Effect of Retaining High-Skilled International Graduates: Evidence from the STEM OPT Extension," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21224, Feb.
• Lenzu, Simone & Rivers, David & Tielens, Joris & Hu, Shi, 2026, "Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21218, Feb.
• Tamilina, Larysa & Akaliyski, Plamen, 2026, "Individualism, Formal Institutions, and National Innovation: A Configurational Analysis of 80 Countries," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 127893, Jan.
• à lvarez, Inmaculada C. & Barbero, Javier & Orea, Luis & Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, 2025, "How Institutions Shape the Economic Returns to Investment in European Regions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20969, Dec.
• Flora Bellone & Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï & Simone Vannuccini, 2026, "Input Trade Shocks and the Direction of Innovation," GREDEG Working Papers, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France, number 2026-17, Jul.
• Rabia Bashir, 2026, "Influence of Financial Constraints and Financial Resilience on Financial Distress in Malaysian Listed Firms," GATR Journals, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise, number afr249, Jun, DOI: https://doi.org/10.35609/afr.2026.1.
• Moraga-González, José-Luis & Motchenkova, Evgenia, 2026, "Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20986, Jan.
• Will Aarons & Asani Sarkar, 2026, "Effect of Tariffs on U.S. Small Businesses," Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, number 20260709, Jul, DOI: 10.59576/lse.20260709.
• Hvide, Hans K. & Meling, Tom G., 2026, "New Technology and Entrepreneurship," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21200, Feb.
• Akcigit, Ufuk & Chikis, Craig A. & Dinlersoz, Emin & Goldschlag, Nathan, 2026, "Attention (And Money) Is All You Need: Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21293, Mar.
• Heller, David & Kim, Daehyun & Harhoff, Dietmar, 2025, "Entrepreneurial Training and Startup Internationalization: Evidence from the German Accelerator Program," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20888, Dec.
• Rachid Maghniwi, 2026, "The Determinants of E-Entrepreneurship Intention Among Generation Z in Morocco," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05453373, Jan, DOI: 10.47191/ijmei/v12i1.04.
• Kiyoung Jeon & Zeynep Yom, 2026, "The Asymmetric Green Transition: Global Value Chains, Fixed Adoption Costs, and Firm-Level Carbon Productivity," Villanova School of Business Department of Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, Villanova School of Business Department of Economics and Statistics, number 67, Jul.
• Bustamante, Maria Cecilia & Zucchi, Francesca, 2026, "Dynamic Carbon Emission Management," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21300, Mar.
• Dan Cao & Henry Hyatt & Toshihiko Mukoyama & Erick Sager, 2026, "New U.S. Business Establishments: Surging or Stalling?," Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), number 2026-040, Jun, DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2026.040.
• Sandra Valentina Lizarazo, 2026, "Innovation, Human Capital, and Taxation: Evidence from a Structural Model of the Canadian Economy," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2026/116, Jun.
• Oecd, 2026, "Artificial intelligence and open finance: Synergies, trade-offs and policy implications," OECD Artificial Intelligence Papers, OECD Publishing, number 61, Jul, DOI: 10.1787/eb511c3c-en.
• Rudy Fernandez-Escobedo, 2026, "Structural Inertia in Regional Industrial Concentration: Persistence and Mobility across European Regions, 2017–2023," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2610, Jun, revised Jun 2026.
• Otrachshenko, Vladimir & Vasil’, Roman, 2026, "Temperature and Firms’ Performance: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Coping Strategies," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18746, Jun.
• Hoekman, Bernard & Prosi, Daniel & Sanfilippo, Marco & Ticku, Rohit, 2026, "FDI, Forward Linkages and Services Inputs," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21298, Mar.
• Feyler, Emilie & Heim, Sven & Szücs, Florian & Spiegel, Yossi, 2025, "Horizontal Minority Stake Acquisitions and Patent Activity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20917, Dec.
• Bernardo Ribeiro, 2026, "Growth With New And Old Technologies," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2515R1, Apr.
• Adam, Klaus & Renkin, Tobias & Züllig, Gabriel, 2025, "Markups and Marginal Cost over the Firm Life," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20805, Nov.
• Imane Boukhaled & Noureddine Kouaissah & Mohammed Benlemlih, 2026, "The impact of sustainable practices on firm and portfolio performance: A systematic literature review," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05659045, Jul, DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2026.105463.