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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'International Small Business Journal' (2013). Volume 31, issue 1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257474
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257490
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838535
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approach
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513229
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … versus large banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255734
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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
extant literature in that it recognizes the fixed costs associated with banks' monitoring technologies. These costs make … market share and scale important for the banks' cost structures. Our most striking result is that increasing (costly) capital … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257508
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Institute
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … versus large banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137073
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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Institute
extant literature in that it recognizes the fixed costs associated with banks' monitoring technologies. These costs make … market share and scale important for the banks' cost structures. Our most striking result is that increasing (costly) capital … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209515