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Growing like China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123794
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a...
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Banking (Conservatively) With Optimists
Manove, Michael; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791403
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The Taxation of Entrepreneurial Income in a Transition Economy: Issues Raised by Experience in Poland
MEP, Grabowski; Maciej, Dariusz; Smith, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468557
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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …
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Who is Afraid of Globalization? The Challenge of Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America
Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper examines why ‘globaphobia’ seems to be more prevalent among labour in the United States than in Europe. It argues that globalization has generated more wealth, but also more income inequality and adjustment problems, in America than in Europe. In the United States, the median voter...
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Who is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration
Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes towards immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
OECD governments note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and …
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International Migration, Welfare and the Provision of Public Goods
Gatsios, Konstantine; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Mike - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the ‘public finance’ impact of international migration on wages and welfare. To this end, we construct a general equilibrium model of a labour-exporting (source) and a labour-importing (host) country with identical consumers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136698