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In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor - individual entrepreneurs - plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …
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Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
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some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …
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economy and political power. In the last twenty five years the economy of China, a nation of 1.3 billion, has grown by a … almost half of the world output and more than half world trade, with China accounting for half of that. In 2010, Chinaâ …
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some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278078
some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278235
This collection of papers in two volumes is the second in a series on China and East Asian Energy, a major project … which is an initiative of the East Asia Forum in conjunction with the China Economy and Business Program in the Crawford …-level training and capacity building to foster long-term links between policy thinkers in China and Australia. It provides for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365541
This collection of papers in two volumes is the second in a series on China and East Asian Energy, a major project … which is an initiative of the East Asia Forum in conjunction with the China Economy and Business Program in the Crawford …-level training and capacity building to foster long-term links between policy thinkers in China and Australia. It provides for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365550