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Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households
Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care
Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642395
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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden
Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096127
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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues
Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …
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