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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094299
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583719
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade in East Asia
Thorbecke, Willem - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
. Recent findings also indicate that imbalances between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States are a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278034
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade in East Asia
Thorbecke, Willem - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
. Recent findings also indicate that imbalances between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States are a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278082
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade in East Asia
Thorbecke, Willem - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
. Recent findings also indicate that imbalances between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States are a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278129
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Investigating the Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on the People’s Republic of China’s Processed Exports
Thorbecke, Willem - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Many argue that the yuan needs to appreciate to rebalance the Peoples Republic of Chinas trade. However, empirical evidence on the effects of a CNY appreciation on the Peoples Republic of Chinas exports has been mixed for the largest category of exports, processed exports. Since much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363842
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How Would an Appreciation of the Yuan Affect the People’s Republic of China’s Surplus in Processing Trade?
Thorbecke, Willem - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the rest of the world. They …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364000