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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2012

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Knowledge and individual behaviour in the Austrian tradition of business cycles: von Mises vs. Hayek

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2003

in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …

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Macroeconomic analysis and individual economic rationality: some lessons from Wicksell to Schumpeter and von Mises

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...

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Introduction

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2009

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The Lifecycle of Regions

Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

routinized phase where innovation takes place within top-performing incumbents; (3) a second entrepreneurial phase characterized … routinization, in which no further innovation takes place, but is instead a phase of structural change. Using data on 74 West German …

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