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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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Globalization and the Rise of the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, David B; Sanders, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial … model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the supply of unskilled labor to the world economy, a … move varieties between life cycle stages, their importance increases due to globalization. The many new opportunities for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124127
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Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews: The Uneven Reach of WTO Disciplines
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Tumurchudur, Bolormaa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The paper uses a new database on Anti-Dumping measures worldwide to assess whether the 1995 Uruguay Round Agreement on AD sunset reviews had any effect. Estimates from a count of revocations for a panel of AD-using countries over 1979-2005 show that a five-year cycle is more apparent after the...
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Developing Countries Exports Survival in the OECD: Does Experience Matter?
Carrère, Céline; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper focuses on developing countries that export for the first time to the OECD and obtains several important results on export dynamic, linking exports experience and exports survival. Using product level data at the SITC 5 digit level for 114 developing countries on the 1962-2009 period,...
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Modelling the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office
Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We analyze the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain variables that are correlates of the applicants’ and examiners’ assessments of a patent’s economic and technical relevance as well as ex post-application citation measures which indicate the...
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Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias
Kleck, Gary; Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
unlike nearly all previous such studies, we properly account for the endogeneity of gun ownership levels. We discuss the … three main sources of endogeneity bias - reverse causality (higher crime rates lead people to acquire guns for self … endogeneity problems. When the problem is ignored, gun levels are associated with higher rates of gun homicide; when the problem …
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...
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International Trade and Child Labour: Cross-Country Evidence
Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
for the endogeneity of trade and for cross-country income differences, the openness elasticity of child labour at cross …
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Analyzing female labor supply -- Evidence from a Dutch tax reform
Bosch, Nicole; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Among OECD countries, the Netherlands has average female labor force participation, but by far the highest rate of part-time work. This paper investigates the extent to which married women respond to financial incentives. We exploit the exogenous variation caused by a substantial Dutch tax...
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Endogeneity of Currency Areas and Trade Blocs: Evidence from the Inter-war Period
Ritschl, Albrecht; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
members was already high. In OLS estimation, this would cause endogeneity bias. The present Paper employs both fixed …-effects and binary choice methods to trace endogeneity in the formation of historical currency arrangements. Studying the … formation of currency blocs in the 1930s, we find strong evidence of endogeneity. We work with country-group fixed effects and …
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