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Görg, Holger; Kneller, Richard; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

, in line with theory, that there are firm- as well as firm-product specific competencies that are important for shaping …

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Using and Abusing Economic Theory

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...

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What Will Take the Con Out of Econometrics?

McAleer, Michael; Pagan, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...

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On the Strategic Use of Attention Grabbers

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

When a firm decides which products to offer or put on display, it takes into account the products' ability to attract attention to the brand name as a whole. Thus, the value of a product to the firm emanates from the consumer demand it directly meets, as well as the indirect demand it generates...

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Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study a market model in which competing firms use costly marketing devices to influence the set of alternatives … a function of the marketing devices employed by the firms. We examine the implications of this behavioral model in the … marketing devices and consumers’ conversion rates. …

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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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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Progressive Taxes and Firm Births

Bacher, Hans Ulrich; Brülhart, Marius - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Tax reform proposals in the spirit of the 'flat tax' model typically aim to reduce three parameters: the average tax burden, the progressivity of the tax schedule, and the complexity of the tax code. We explore the implications of changes in these three parameters on entrepreneurial activity,...

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