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Entry and Regulation - Evidence from Health Care Professions

Schaumans, Catherine; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably, pharmacies have frequently received high regulated markups over wholesale costs, and have been protected from additional competition through geographic entry restrictions. We...

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Why and Where do Headquarters Move?

Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa; Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyses decisions regarding the location of headquarters in the US for the period 1996-2001. Using a unique firm-level database of about 30,000 US headquarters, we study the firm- and location-specific characteristics of headquarters that relocated over that period. Headquarters are...

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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms’ organization and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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Lobbying on Entry

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

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...

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Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers

Oyama, Daisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise …

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Tax Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

an entrepreneurial sector, the Paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

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Where Do Firms Incorporate?

Becht, Marco; Mayer, Colin; Wagner, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Over the last few years, a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has opened up the European Union to cross-border mobility in incorporation. In this paper we explore how deregulation and the costs of regulation have affected the location decisions of firms. Using a newly...

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