Incentives for SMEs in the European Union, with particular reference to Italy

The authors have gathered research from across the globe in the study of the economics of innovation, incentives and uncertainty. Topics include incentives for SME's in the European Union; technology innovation and economic success in Japanese manufacturing firms; nonpoint pollution policy in the presence of uncertainty; the use of DEA-DA for corporate value assessment; the impact of system of trade preferences (non-reciprocal) on development outcomes in beneficiary economies; the innovation and export activity causal link; uncertainty in the labor and financial markets and the sluggish U.S. macroeconomic performance; the implications of strategic delegation in a mixed oligopoly model; monetary uncertainty and the demand for money in the U.S.; and bonus/promotion schemes as incentives