Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of firms in Peru in relation to open innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were acquired through a survey of Peruvian middle and senior managers. Findings – Peruvian firms engaged in open innovation did report higher sales growth. The study indicated that involvement in open innovation included activities to reduce opera...

At first glance, the reader may think that there is little connection between the empirical study of Bordo, Humpage, and Schwartz of the effect of foreign exchange market interventions by the Federal Reserve during 1973–1995 and the Glocker and Towbin quantitative DSGE model of reserve requirements in a small open economy with financial frictions.1 However, there are key links. Each study exami...

We would like to thank Philip Lowe, Lars Svensson and David Gruen for helpful suggestions. We are extremely grateful to Luci Ellis for training us in the use of Mathematica 3.0. Any remaining errors are ours. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

  Poverty is a multi-dimensional problem and various researchers, based on their field, have investigated different aspects of poverty. Moreover, poverty, as a global problem, could be an interesting subject for both developed and developing countries. In recent decades, both international org...