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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011

We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...

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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?

Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...

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A consumption-based measure of the monetary rewards to entrepreneurship

Krichevskiy, Dmitriy - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2010

Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

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Ukraine Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2017

This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the … World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector … Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. This report assesses the environment - or "ecosystem" -- that shapes innovation by firms in …

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Igniting Climate Entrepreneurship in Morocco : Findings from the Climate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2017

-growth, green entrepreneurship and innovation activity. At the same, this report also aims to increase the awareness of and support …

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Taking Stock April 2024 : Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship

World Bank Group - 2024

Viet Nam's economy slowed sharply in 2023, with three key drivers of growth -- exports, consumption, and private domestic investment -- is losing momentum. On the production side, the slowdown was led by industrial production. In the first quarter of 2024, the economy registered 5.66 percent...

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Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship in Viet Nam : An Ecosystem Diagnostic

World Bank Group - 2023

national flagship Program 844 on "Supporting the National Innovation Initiative to 2025" toward building a pipeline of …

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