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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948862
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Public Policy for Venture Capital
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - CESifo - 2001
This paper proposes a simple partial equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government policy on venture capital backed investments. Giving up an alternative career, entrepreneurs focus their effort on a single, high risk venture each. Venture capitalists acquire an equity stake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765815
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Public Policy for Start-up Entrepreneurship with Venture Capital and Bank Finance
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - CESifo - 2003
This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766013
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Public Policy and Venture Capital Backed Innovation
Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2003
This paper discusses the role of public policy towards the venture capital industry. The model emphasizes four margins: supply of entrepreneurs due to career choice, entry of venture capital funds and search for investment opportunities, entrepreneurial effort and venture capital advice during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766108
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Behavioral and Experimental Economics Can Inform Public Policy: Some Thoughts
Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2009
Experimental and behavioral economics are well established branches in the economic science. This essay presents and discusses some results and behavioral regularities from these fields which are of potential importance for public policy. After a brief introduction of what experimental and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533977
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Policy-induced Internal Migration: An Empirical Investigation of the Canadian Case
Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2005
We investigate the influence of public policy on interprovincial migration in Canada using new aggregated migration data for 1974-1996, the longest period studied so far. We consider the consequences of regional variation in a variety of policies, and also investigate the effects of certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094353
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Growth, Longevity and Public Policy
Ponthiere, Gregory - CESifo - 2006
This paper studies the optimal long-run public intervention in a two-period OLG model where the probability of surviving the first period and the length of the second period can be influenced by distinct policies. While the optimal size of public intervention depends on the extra-productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181649
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia: A Reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877667
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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877794
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877818