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Perotti, Enrico C; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants … higher rents earned with less competition. Entry and investor protection improve when wealth distribution becomes less … countries we find that greater accountability is associated with higher entry in sectors that are more dependent on external …

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Does the New Economy Need New Governance? Ownership, Knowledge and Performance

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Market Size, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality

Behrens, Kristian; Pokrovsky, Dmitry; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We develop a monopolistic competition model with two sectors and heterogeneous agents who self-select into entrepreneurship, depending on entrepreneurial ability. The effect of market size on the equilibrium share of entrepreneurs crucially hinges on properties of the lower-tier utility function...

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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Stel, A.J. van; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data...

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Health-Care Utilization in Canada: 25 Years of Evidence

Curtis, Lori J.; MacMinn, William J. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

An abundance of literature links socio-economic status to health and health care in Canada and other countries. Recent anecdotal evidence indicates that Canadians believe their access to health care is diminishing over time. This study provides a brief description of utilization patterns in...

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Les besoins non comblés de services à domicile chez les aînés canadiens

Busque, Marc-Antoine - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

The shift to ambulatory care, initiated in Canada’s health care system in the 1990’s, consists in reducing the length of hospitals stays, delaying institutionalization and promoting home care. However, the supply for health and social support services is flawed in that seniors living in the...

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Effects of 'Authorized-Generics' on Canadian Drug Prices

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

generic competitors should lower prices. On the other hand, the threat of AG entry into a therapeutic market might deter entry … of AG entry into a market might deter entry by IGs. IG executives, however, state that the threat of AG entry has … decreased their incentive to challenge ‘marginal’ drug markets. In particular the threat of AG entry has increased from $5m to …

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Contrasting Inequalities: Comparing Correlates of Health in Canada and the United States

Armstrong, Hugh; Clement, Wallace; Lin, Zhiqiu; Prus, Steven - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006

Comparative health studies consistently find that Canadians on average are healthier than Americans. Comparing health status within and between Canada and the United States provides key insights into the distribution of inequalities in these two countries. Canada’s universal health care...

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