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health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …. The best predictor for any specific behavior is typically the corresponding context-specific measure. …
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is paid to the wider economic context, and to the dangers posed by political pressures. Superficially trivial …
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elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …
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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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within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 …
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innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …
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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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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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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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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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