We study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments and business activity by exploiting a 6 percentage-point reduction in tax rate 2012–2014 Finland. use detailed administrative data difference-in-differences method comparing small corporations (tax cuts) to similar partnerships (no change taxes). find no significant average investment responses but do observe an increase annual sa...

Small food firms make up an important sector in the European economy and are particularly significant in rural areas where they are potential sources of employment and growth. Despite this, their behaviour as regards innovation has been relatively little studied to date. This exploratory investigation finds different types of innovative behaviours among small agro-food firms in peripheral regio...

Abstract In this paper, the effect of foreign sector macro-variable on inflation dynamics and firms’ pricing behavior has been investigated in the context of a small open economy New Keynesian Phillips Curve. This curve is derived and estimated for a developing oil-exporting economy suffering from Dutch Disease. This version of NKPC is an extension of Leith and Malley’s (2007) small open econom...